The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 46

When it was getting near midnight he heard them ordering him to open the door, and there were three of them for every one that there had been the previous evening.

Who acts: end, daylight, pipe, getting · What happens: get, hear, order, open, be · To what, where: pipe, daylight, door

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, daylight, pipe, getting), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 getting	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 one	csubj
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	parataxis
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	obj
10	ordering	order	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 heard	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ordering	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 open	mark
13	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ordering	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 were	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 were	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 were	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 three	nmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 one	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 been	nsubj
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 been	expl
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 been	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 one	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 evening	det
31	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 evening	amod
32	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 been	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	end			midnight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	past	daylight	pipe				tree rules
3	order	gerund	pipe not said here		daylight			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	open	to-infinitive	pipe not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	is	past	getting				for every one	tree rules

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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