The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 39

And suddenly the door creaked and flew open, and a great heavy chest was pushed in, and behind it came the step-daughter, radiant and beautiful, in a dress all glittering with silver and gold.

Who acts: door, chest, all · What happens: creak, fly, push in, come, glitter · To what, where: great heavy chest, step daughter, dress

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, chest, all), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 creaked	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 creaked	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 creaked	nsubj
5	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flew	cc
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creaked	conj
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pushed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pushed	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chest	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chest	amod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chest	amod
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pushed	aux:pass
16	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 creaked	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 pushed	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 came	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creaked	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 daughter	det
24	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 step	punct
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 radiant	punct
28	radiant	radiant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beautiful	cc
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 daughter	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dress	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 dress	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dress	det
34	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 glittering	nsubj
36	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 dress	acl:relcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 silver	case
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 glittering	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 gold	cc
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 silver	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 creaked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creak	past	the door			suddenly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	the door not said here			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	push in	past · passive		a great heavy chest			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	come	past	chest	the step daughter and radiant	a dress		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dress=Location
5	glitter	gerund	all	a dress not said here		with silver and gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=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 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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