The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 73

All the doors and posterns were locked, but he finally though of creeping up to a window, and opening that, and as the clock struck nine, he crept out there.

Who acts: clock, remainder · What happens: lock, creep up, open, strike, creep out · To what, where: doors, window, that, nine

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, remainder), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 doors	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doors	det
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 locked	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 posterns	cc
5	posterns	postern	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 doors	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 locked	aux:pass
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 crept	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 crept	nsubj
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	32 crept	advmod
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 crept	mark
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 though	fixed
14	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 crept	csubj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 creeping	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 window	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creeping	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 opening	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 opening	cc
21	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 creeping	advcl
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 opening	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crept	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crept	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 struck	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clock	det
27	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	nsubj
28	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 crept	advcl
29	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 struck	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 struck	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 crept	nsubj
32	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 locked	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	34 there	advmod
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 crept	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		all doors and posterns			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	creep up	gerund			a window		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination
3	open	gerund		that			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
4	strike	past	the clock	nine			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=Patient
5	creep out	past	remainder		there	finally property	vn run-51.3.2 «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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