The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 2

The Giantess soon opened the door; she was very stupid, and did not know him again, but she stopped a minute before she took him in.

Who acts: Giantess · What happens: open, be, not know, stop, take · To what, where: door, him

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giantess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giantess	det
2	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 opened	advmod
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 stupid	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stupid	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stupid	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 stupid	advmod
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 opened	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 opened	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 know	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stopped	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stopped	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stopped	nsubj
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 minute	det
24	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	obj
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 took	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stopped	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	obj
29	in	in	ADV	_	27 took	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the Giantess	the door			soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	is	past	Giantess				stupid property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	the Giantess not said here	him = he		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	stop	past	Giantess			minute		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	take	past	Giantess		him = he			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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