The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 41

He shuts the door, pulls on the Grandmother’s night-cap down to his eyes, then he lies down all his length in the bed and draws the curtains.

Who acts: story · What happens: shut, pull, lie down, draw · To what, where: door, length, curtains

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shuts	nsubj
2	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shuts	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pulls	punct
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shuts	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	13 cap	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Grandmother	det
9	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cap	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Grandmother	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cap	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 night	punct
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
14	down	down	ADV	_	6 pulls	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 down	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lies	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 lies	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lies	nsubj
21	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pulls	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	25 length	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 length	det:predet
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 length	nmod:poss
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lies	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 bed	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bed	det
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 length	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 draws	cc
30	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pulls	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 curtains	det
32	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 draws	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shut	present	story	the door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	pull	present	story not said here			on the Grandmother's night cap; down property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on cap=Theme
3	lie down	present	story	story's length in the bed	then		tree rules
4	draw	present	story not said here	the curtains			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme

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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