The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 21

Then Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and went into the huge kitchen to see if the Giantess had gone out; he found no one there, so he went to the door and opened it softly, for he thought he could not do so with the harp in his hand.

Who acts: Jack, Giantess · What happens: steal, go, see, go out, find, open · To what, where: wardrobe, huge kitchen, one, door, harp, hand

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 (Jack, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stole	advmod
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 stole	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 wardrobe	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wardrobe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wardrobe	det
8	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kitchen	amod
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	advcl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 gone	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Giantess	det
20	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 see	ccomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 gone	compound:prt
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 found	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 door	det
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 opened	cc
38	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 opened	obj
40	softly	softly	ADV	_	38 opened	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 thought	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 thought	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 thought	nsubj
44	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 opened	conj
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 do	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 do	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 do	advmod
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 thought	ccomp
49	so	so	ADV	_	48 do	advmod
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 harp	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 harp	det
52	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 do	obl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 hand	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 hand	nmod:poss
55	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 do	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Jack		the wardrobe	then	softly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out wardrobe=Location
2	go	past	Jack not said here		the huge kitchen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
3	see	to-infinitive	Jack not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Giantess					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	past	Jack	no one	there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
6	go	past	Jack		the door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
7	open	past	Jack not said here	harp			softly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
8	think speech: other	past	Jack					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	not do	could	Jack		Jack's hand		with the harp	vn act-114-1 «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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