The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 18

When Halvor had stood there for some time, and no one had come out, he went in and opened a door, and inside a Princess was sitting at her wheel spinning.

Who acts: Halvor, one · What happens: stand, come out, go in, open, sit, spin · To what, where: door, wheel

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, one), 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	4 stood	advmod
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	aux
4	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stood	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	conj
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 opened	cc
21	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opened	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sitting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sitting	cc
26	inside	inside	ADP	_	28 Princess	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sitting	aux
30	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 went	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 wheel	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wheel	nmod:poss
33	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
34	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sitting	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect	Halvor		there	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come out	past · perfect	no one				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	go in	past	Halvor					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	past	Halvor not said here	a door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	sit	past · progressive	Halvor not said here		Princess's wheel		inside a Princess	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside princess=Location
6	spin	gerund	Halvor not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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