The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 80

When the sorceress had gone a little way she turned to observe the door, that she might know it again, but all in vain; for it was invisible to her and all other women.

Who acts: sorceress, door · What happens: go, turn, observe, know, be · To what, where: little way, door, sorceress

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorceress, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sorceress	det
3	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 vain	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 observe	mark
12	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turned	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observe	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 know	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 observe	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 vain	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 vain	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 vain	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 vain	case
26	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 invisible	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 invisible	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 invisible	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 invisible	cop
31	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 vain	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 invisible	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 women	cc
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 women	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 women	amod
37	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 invisible	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the sorceress	a little way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	turn	past	sorceress	a little way not said here				tree rules
3	observe	to-infinitive	sorceress not said here	the door				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent door=Topic
4	know	might	sorceress	door		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is	past	door		sorceress		all other women conj; invisible property	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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 80