The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 61

They stopped by a wretched little house; the roof almost touched the ground, and the door was so low that you had to creep in and out.

Who acts: loaves, roof, door, you · What happens: stop, touch, be, have, creep · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loaves, roof, door, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	7 house	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
5	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 touched	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	nsubj
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 touched	advmod
12	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 low	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 low	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 low	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 low	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 low	advmod
21	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 touched	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 low	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 creep	mark
26	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 creep	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 out	cc
29	out	out	ADV	_	27 in	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	loaves = loaf		by a wretched little house	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	touch	past	the roof	the ground	almost property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
3	is	past	the door		low property	tree rules
4	have	past	you			tree rules
5	creep	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP 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 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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