The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 21

The Princess climbed up one of the silver chains, holding in her hand the little porter who, in spite of his minute size, opened a secret door with his golden key and let her in.

Who acts: Princess, little porter · What happens: climb up, hold, open, let in, spite · To what, where: one, little porter, hand, secret door, Princess, minute size

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, little porter), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climbed	compound:prt
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 climbed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 chains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chains	det
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chains	compound
9	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holding	punct
11	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 climbed	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holding	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 porter	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 porter	amod
17	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holding	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 opened	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spite	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 spite	case
21	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opened	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 size	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 size	nmod:poss
24	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 size	compound
25	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spite	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spite	punct
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 porter	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 door	det
29	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 door	amod
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opened	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 key	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 key	nmod:poss
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 key	amod
34	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opened	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
36	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 opened	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	36 let	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the Princess	one of the silver chains			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme
2	hold	gerund	the Princess not said here	the little porter	Princess's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent porter=Theme in hand=Location
3	open	past	the little porter	a secret door		with spite's golden key	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with key=Instrument
4	let in	infinitive	the little porter not said here	Princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	spite			spite's minute size			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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