The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 170

When the door of the room was open, it flared up-this was one of its peculiarities; it flickered quite red upon the Snow-man’s white face.

Who acts: door, room, this · What happens: be, flare up, flicker · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, room, this), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 open	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 open	cop
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flared	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flared	nsubj
11	flared	flare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 open	conj
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 flared	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 one	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 flared	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 peculiarities	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 peculiarities	nmod:poss
19	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 flickered	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flickered	nsubj
22	flickered	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 open	conj
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 red	advmod
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flickered	xcomp
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 face	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
27	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 man	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Snow	punct
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 face	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 man	case
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 red	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the door of the room		open property	tree rules
2	flare up	past	room			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	this	one	of room's peculiarities	tree rules
4	flicker	past	room		red property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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