The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 32

He could hear that she really was coming to open the door to him, only she was so very long about it.

Who acts: uproar, woman · What happens: hear, come, open, be · To what, where: door, uproar

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uproar, woman), 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	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 coming	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 coming	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 open	mark
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 coming	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 open	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 long	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 long	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 long	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hear	parataxis
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 long	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	could	uproar				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past · progressive	woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the door	uproar		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to he=Recipient
4	is	past	woman			about door; long 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 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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