The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 15

As before, the old woman did not open the door, but passed the water through the lattice.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: not open, pass · To what, where: door, water, lattice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	9 open	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 open	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 open	advmod
9	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 open	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obj
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 lattice	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lattice	det
19	lattice	lattice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not open	past · do-support	the old woman	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	pass	past	the old woman not said here	the water		the lattice			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme through lattice=Destination

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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