The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 113

‘Just walk in,’ cried the voice, and when she opened the door there sat an old gray-haired man at the table.

Who acts: voice · What happens: walk in, cry, open, sit · To what, where: voice, door, old haired man, table

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 voice	det
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 opened	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 opened	nsubj
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opened	obj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 opened	advmod
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
21	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 haired	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 gray	punct
23	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 table	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 table	det
27	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	walk in	infinitive				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		the voice		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic
3	open	past	voice	the door	there	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	sit	past		a old haired man	the table	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme at table=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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