The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 93

The gate opened, the inhabitants fell sound asleep, and he walked down the passage till he found the girl on her bed, exactly as he had been told he would.

Who acts: gate, inhabitants, resistance · What happens: open, fall, sound, walk down, find, tell · To what, where: passage, girl, bed, resistance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, inhabitants, resistance), 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	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inhabitants	det
6	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	advcl
8	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fell	xcomp
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sound	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walked	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 passage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 passage	det
16	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walked	obl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 found	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 bed	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bed	nmod:poss
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 girl	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	31 told	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 told	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 told	aux:pass
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 found	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 would	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 told	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the gate				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the inhabitants				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	sound	infinitive	the inhabitants not said here			asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	walk down	past	resistance	the passage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme passage=Trajectory
5	find	past	resistance	the girl	gate's bed		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		resistance		exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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