The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 97

Then he opened a little window in the roof and let down the chain from which the kettle usually hung, and tried to hook the bed covering and to draw it up.

Who acts: youth, kettle · What happens: open, let down, hang, try, hook, cover · To what, where: little window, roof, chain, bed

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, kettle), 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 opened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 window	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 window	amod
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 let	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chain	det
14	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 hung	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kettle	det
18	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	nsubj
19	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 hung	advmod
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 chain	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hook	mark
25	hook	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tried	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bed	det
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hook	obj
28	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 hook	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 draw	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 draw	mark
31	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hook	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 draw	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 draw	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	youth	a little window	the roof	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent window=Theme in roof=Location
2	let down	infinitive	youth not said here	the chain				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
3	hang	past	the kettle		the chain		usually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	try	past	youth not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hook not said to happen	to-infinitive	youth not said here	the bed				vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme bed=Extent
6	cover	gerund	youth not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	draw up	to-infinitive	youth not said here	bed				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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