The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 24

The servants came to the door, and finding it locked, they knocked; but the frozen breath on the window replied in Prince Milan’s voice, ‘I am coming directly.’

Who acts: servants, door, I · What happens: come, find, lock, knock, freeze, reply · To what, where: door, frozen breath, voice

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, door, I), 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 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 finding	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 finding	cc
9	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 finding	obj
11	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 finding	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knocked	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knocked	nsubj
14	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 locked	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 replied	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 replied	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 breath	det
18	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 breath	amod
19	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 replied	nsubj:pass
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breath	nmod
23	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 voice	case
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Milan	compound
26	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 voice	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Milan	case
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 replied	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 coming	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 coming	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 coming	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 coming	aux
33	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 replied	conj
34	directly	directly	ADV	_	33 coming	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the servants		the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	find	gerund	the servants not said here	door			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	lock	participle	door not said here				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	knock	past	servants = servant				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	reply speech: assert	participle · passive		the frozen breath on the window	Prince Milan's voice		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
7	come	present · progressive	I			directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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