The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 47

He did not make the slightest movement to go out to them or to open the door, but before long they broke it up, and were in on top of him.

Who acts: daylight, doors · What happens: not make, go out, open, break up, be · To what, where: slightest movement, pipe, door, movement, top

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 (daylight, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 movement	det
6	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 movement	amod
7	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 movement	acl
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 open	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 open	mark
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 broke	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 broke	cc
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 long	case
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 broke	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 broke	nsubj
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 broke	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 broke	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 top	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 top	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 top	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 top	case
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 top	case
31	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 top	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not make	past · do-support	daylight	the slightest movement				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Product
2	go out	to-infinitive	daylight not said here	the slightest movement not said here	pipe		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open	to-infinitive	daylight not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	break up	past	doors = door	movement				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	is	past				top	of daylight	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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