The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 34

When she came back to the cottage door with her pails, she called to her mother who was inside, ‘Open the door!’

Who acts: head, mother · What happens: come back, call, be, open · To what, where: cottage door, mother, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pails	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pails	nmod:poss
11	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 door	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 inside	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 inside	cop
20	inside	inside	ADV	_	17 mother	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Open	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Open	punct
23	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 called	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Open	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Open	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 Open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past	head			the cottage door with head's pails		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	call	past	head		head's mother			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
3	is	past	head's mother				inside property	tree rules
4	open	infinitive	head not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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