The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 123

The feast was already at its height, and the hall was brilliant with youth and beauty, when the door was flung wide and Dotterine entered, making all the other maidens look pale and dim beside her.

Who acts: feast, hall, Dotterine, other maidens · What happens: be, fling, enter, make, look · To what, where: height, door

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, hall, Dotterine, other maidens), 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 feast	det
2	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 height	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 height	cop
4	already	already	ADV	_	7 height	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 height	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 height	nmod:poss
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brilliant	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brilliant	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brilliant	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brilliant	cop
13	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 youth	case
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brilliant	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beauty	cc
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 youth	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flung	punct
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 flung	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flung	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flung	aux:pass
23	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 height	parataxis
24	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flung	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 entered	cc
26	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 entered	nsubj
27	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flung	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 making	punct
29	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 entered	advcl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 maidens	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 maidens	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 maidens	amod
33	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 look	nsubj
34	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 making	parataxis
35	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 look	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 dim	cc
37	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pale	conj
38	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dim	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 height	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the feast		feast's height		tree rules
2	is	past	the hall			with youth and beauty; brilliant property	tree rules
3	fling	past · passive		the door		wide property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	enter	past	Dotterine				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	gerund	Dotterine not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	look	present	all other maidens			pale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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