The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 22

Then she stepped to the window and opened the lattice, saying, ‘The room is so hot,’ but she looked after him as long as she could see the white plumes in his hat.

Who acts: girl, room · What happens: step, open, say, be, look, see · To what, where: window, lattice, white plumes, hat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, room), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stepped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stepped	nsubj
3	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stepped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 opened	cc
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lattice	det
10	lattice	lattice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 opened	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hot	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 hot	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hot	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hot	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 hot	advmod
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saying	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hot	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 hot	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	conj
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 looked	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 see	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 long	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 plumes	det
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 plumes	amod
35	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 hat	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hat	nmod:poss
38	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 plumes	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	girl		the window	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination
2	open	past	girl not said here	the lattice				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lattice=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	girl not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the room				hot property	tree rules
5	look	past	girl			after son	long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	could	girl	the white plumes	son's hat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plume=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 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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