The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 78

Suddenly a door opened, the draught caught up the little Dancer, and off she flew like a sylph to the Tin-soldier in the stove, burst into flames--and that was the end of her!

Who acts: door, draught, that · What happens: open, catch up, fly, burst, be · To what, where: draught, little Dancer, flames, end

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, draught, that), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 opened	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 draught	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 draught	det
7	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 draught	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 caught	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dancer	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Dancer	amod
12	Dancer	Dancer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 flew	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	parataxis
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 sylph	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sylph	det
20	sylph	sylph	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 soldier	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soldier	det
23	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 soldier	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Tin	punct
25	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 stove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stove	det
28	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 soldier	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 burst	punct
30	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flew	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 flames	case
32	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 burst	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 end	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 end	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 end	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 end	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 end	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	a door	the draught		suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location draught=Theme
2	catch up	participle	the draught not said here	the little Dancer			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	door			like a sylph; to the Tin soldier in the stove result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to soldier=Result
4	burst	past	door not said here		flames		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	that	the end		of door	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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