The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 54

But when the doors were opened, there stood all Six, alive and well, saying they were glad they could come out to warm themselves, for the great cold in the room had frozen all the food hard in the dishes.

Who acts: doors · What happens: open, stand, say, be, come out, warm · To what, where: doors, Six, room, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 stood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 opened	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doors	det
4	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opened	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opened	aux:pass
6	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stood	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 opened	advmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Six	det
11	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 stood	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 alive	punct
13	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stood	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 well	cc
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 alive	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stood	advcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 glad	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 glad	cop
20	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 frozen	advcl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 glad	ccomp
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 warm	mark
26	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	advcl
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 warm	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cold	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 cold	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cold	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cold	amod
32	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glad	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cold	obl
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 frozen	aux
37	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 saying	ccomp
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 food	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 food	det
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 frozen	obj
41	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 frozen	xcomp
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 dishes	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 dishes	det
44	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 hard	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive		the doors	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	stand	past		all Six			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer six=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	doors = door			glad property	tree rules
5	come out	could	doors = door			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	warm	to-infinitive	doors = door not said here	doors = door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
7	be		doors = door not said here		the room		tree rules
8	freeze	past · perfect		all food		hard property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient food=Result

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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