The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 84

He walked boldly up the steps and entered the hall, where the hideous old witch came to meet him.

Who acts: man, hideous old witch · What happens: walk, enter, come, meet · To what, where: hall, man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hideous old witch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 steps	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steps	det
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 entered	cc
8	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witch	det
14	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 witch	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 witch	amod
16	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hall	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 meet	mark
19	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 meet	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	man		up the steps; boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up step=Trajectory
2	enter	past	man not said here	the hall		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
3	come	past	the hideous old witch			tree rules
4	meet	to-infinitive	the hideous old witch not said here	man		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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