The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 129

And when he saw that she was sound asleep, he opened a trapdoor and let her fall into the cellar.

Who acts: man, Sleep · What happens: see, be, open, let, fall · To what, where: trapdoor, Sleep, cellar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, Sleep), 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	_	12 opened	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 opened	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
8	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asleep	amod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opened	nsubj
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trapdoor	det
14	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opened	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 opened	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 cellar	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cellar	det
21	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Sleep		asleep property	tree rules
3	open	past	man	a trapdoor		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trapdoor=Theme
4	let	infinitive	man not said here	Sleep		tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	Sleep not said here		into the cellar result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cellar=Result

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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