The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 10

When the squire saw this, he thought to himself, ‘The horses will come the same way if I don’t open the door,’ so he did this.

Who acts: squire, horses, I · What happens: see, think, come, not open, do · To what, where: this, squire, same way, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, horses, I), 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 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 squire	det
3	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 thought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horses	det
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 open	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 open	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 open	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 open	advmod
24	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 open	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 open	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 did	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	advcl
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 did	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	the squire	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	squire		squire	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	future	the horses	the same way		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	not open a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	I	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	do	past	squire	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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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