The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 78

And then the folding doors were opened, and a crowd of children rushed in, as though they wanted to knock down the whole tree, whilst the older people followed soberly.

Who acts: crowd, doors, older people · What happens: open, rush in, want, knock down, follow · To what, where: folding doors, whole tree

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, doors, older people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 opened	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
4	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doors	compound
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 opened	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	aux:pass
7	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushed	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crowd	det
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crowd	nmod
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 opened	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 rushed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 wanted	mark
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 wanted	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rushed	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 knock	mark
22	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 knock	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tree	amod
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knock	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 followed	punct
28	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	32 followed	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
30	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 followed	nsubj
32	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wanted	conj
33	soberly	soberly	ADV	_	32 followed	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive		the folding doors	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	rush in	participle	a crowd of children				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	past	doors = door				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	knock down not said to happen	to-infinitive	doors = door not said here	the whole tree			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5	follow	past	the older people			soberly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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