The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 38

The gate was shut, but she pushed against the rusty lock so that it came open.

Who acts: gate, Gerda · What happens: be, push, come

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, Gerda), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	cop
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pushed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 pushed	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pushed	nsubj
8	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	conj
9	against	against	ADP	_	12 lock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lock	det
11	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lock	amod
12	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushed	obl
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 came	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pushed	advcl
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gate	shut property	tree rules
2	push	past	Gerda	against the rusty lock	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against lock=Theme
3	come	past	gate	open property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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