The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 9

He knocked bravely at the door, which opened, and by the light which shone from within he saw an old gray-haired man dressed in a coat made of bright-coloured patches.

Who acts: tailor, door, light · What happens: knock, open, shine, see, dress, make · To what, where: old gray haired man, coat

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, door, light), 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	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	2 knocked	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 door	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 light	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 light	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 light	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 light	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl:unmarked
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 shone	nsubj
16	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 light	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	16 shone	obl
18	within	within	ADP	_	20 saw	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shone	advcl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
23	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 gray	punct
25	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
27	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 man	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 coat	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 coat	det
30	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dressed	obl
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 coat	acl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 patches	case
33	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 coloured	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 bright	punct
35	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 patches	amod
36	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	tailor			by the light; at the door; bravely property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	open	past	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shine	past	the light				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	tailor	a old gray haired man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	dress	participle		a old gray haired man not said here	a coat		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	participle		a coat not said here		of coloured patches	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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