The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 70

One day Catherine was sitting in her own room when suddenly the door flew open, and in came a tall and beautiful woman holding in her hands a little wheel.

Who acts: day Catherine, door, tall woman · What happens: sit, fly, come, hold · To what, where: own room, little wheel, hands

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 (day Catherine, door, tall 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Catherine	compound
3	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 flew	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	advcl
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flew	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 came	case
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beautiful	cc
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tall	conj
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
25	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 woman	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hands	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 holding	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wheel	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wheel	amod
31	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	day Catherine		daughter's own room		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	fly	past	the door			open, suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a tall woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold	gerund	a tall woman not said here	a little wheel	daughter's hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme in hand=Location

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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