The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 26

While they were speaking thus, encouraging each other, they had reached the room; the eldest fitted the key into the lock, and snap! the door stood open.

Who acts: Sisters, door · What happens: speak, encourage, reach, fit, stand · To what, where: each, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sisters, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 speaking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speaking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	aux
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 reached	advcl
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 speaking	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 encouraging	punct
7	encouraging	encourage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 speaking	conj
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 encouraging	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	aux
13	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 key	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 key	det
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 key	amod
19	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 key	amod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 key	det
21	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 lock	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lock	det
24	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 key	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snap	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 snap	cc
27	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 key	conj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 key	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	parataxis
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stood	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	Sisters = sister		thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	encourage	gerund	Sisters = sister not said here	each		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
3	reach	past · perfect	Sisters = sister	the room	the eldest fitted key into the lock and snap obl	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme
4	fit	participle				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	stand	past	the door		open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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