The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 33

First she chased away her cat, lest it should run away when the door was opened, then he heard her talking to herself and made out that her lamp wanted trimming, that she might see better who it was that knocked, and then that it lacked fresh oil, and she must refill it.

Who acts: woman, cat, uproar, lamp, door · What happens: chase away, run away, open, hear, talk, make out · To what, where: cat, door, woman, fresh oil

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 (woman, cat, uproar, lamp), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 chased	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	nsubj
3	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 chased	advmod
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cat	nmod:poss
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 run	punct
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	11 run	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 run	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 run	aux
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chased	parataxis
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 run	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 opened	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 opened	aux:pass
17	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 run	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 heard	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obj
23	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 heard	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 herself	case
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 talking	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heard	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 made	compound:prt
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 wanted	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lamp	nmod:poss
31	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wanted	nsubj
32	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	advcl
33	trimming	trim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 wanted	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 see	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 see	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 trimming	conj
39	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 see	advmod
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 knocked	nsubj:pass
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knocked	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 knocked	aux:pass
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 knocked	mark
44	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 see	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 lacked	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 lacked	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 lacked	advmod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 lacked	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 lacked	nsubj
50	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	parataxis
51	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 oil	amod
52	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lacked	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 refill	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 refill	cc
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 refill	nsubj
56	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 refill	aux
57	refill	refill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 lacked	conj
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 refill	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	past	woman	woman's cat			away, first property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	run away	should	cat				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	past · passive		the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	hear	past	uproar	woman		then		tree rules
5	talk	gerund	woman not said here		woman			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herself=Co-Agent
6	make out	participle	uproar not said here					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
7	want	past	woman's lamp					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	trim not said to happen	gerund	woman's lamp not said here					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	see	might	woman				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	knock	past · passive						vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
11	lack	past	door	fresh oil		then		tree rules
12	refill	must	woman	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 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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