The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 69

As the bamboos became thinner, he found himself opposite to a beautiful garden, in the centre of which stood a tiny spick-and-span little house, and out of the house came a lovely maiden, who unlatched the gate and invited him in the most hospitable way to enter and rest.

Who acts: bamboos, man, centre, tiny spick · What happens: become, find, stand, span, come, unlatch · To what, where: man, centre, tiny spick, little house, house, gate

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bamboos, man, centre, tiny spick), 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	_	3 bamboos	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bamboos	det
3	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 found	obj
10	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 garden	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 garden	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 garden	amod
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opposite	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 centre	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 centre	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 centre	det
18	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 centre	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 spick	det
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spick	amod
24	spick	spick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 span	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 span	cc
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	span	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 spick	acl:relcl
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 span	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 house	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 maiden	det
39	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 maiden	amod
40	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 came	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 unlatched	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 unlatched	nsubj
43	unlatched	unlatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 maiden	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 gate	det
45	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 unlatched	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 invited	cc
47	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 unlatched	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 invited	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	53 way	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 way	det
51	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	52 hospitable	advmod
52	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 way	amod
53	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 invited	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 enter	mark
55	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 way	acl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 rest	cc
57	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 enter	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the bamboos				thin property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	man	man		the centre	opposite property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	stand	past	the centre	a tiny spick				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spick=Stimulus
4	span	present	a tiny spick not said here	little house				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Co-Theme
5	come	past	the bamboos not said here			the house	maiden property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out house=Initial_Location
6	unlatch	past		the gate				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient
7	invite	past			man	the hospitable way		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	enter	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	rest	infinitive						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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