The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 20

Before long, however, the door opened and a tiny man stepped into the room, not more than three feet high, clothed in a dressing-gown, and with a small wrinkled face, and a grey beard which reached down to the silver buckles of his shoes.

Who acts: door, tiny man, grey beard · What happens: open, step, clothe, wrinkle, reach down, buckle · To what, where: long, room

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, tiny man, grey beard), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 opened	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 opened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stepped	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stepped	nsubj
13	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stepped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 high	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 feet	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	21 three	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 more	fixed
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 feet	nummod
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 high	obl:unmarked
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stepped	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clothed	punct
25	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 high	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 gown	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gown	det
28	dressing	dressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gown	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 dressing	punct
30	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clothed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 face	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 face	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 face	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 face	det
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 face	amod
36	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 face	amod
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stepped	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 buckles	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 buckles	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 beard	det
41	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 beard	amod
42	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 buckles	nsubj
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 reached	nsubj
44	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 beard	acl:relcl
45	down	down	ADV	_	44 reached	advmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 silver	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 silver	det
48	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reached	obl
49	buckles	buckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 shoes	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 shoes	nmod:poss
52	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 buckles	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the door	long	however property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before long=Location
2	step	past	a tiny man	the room	with a small wrinkled face	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	clothe	participle	a tiny man not said here		in a dressing gown	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in gown=Theme
4	wrinkle	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	reach down	past	a grey beard		to the silver; down property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	buckle	present	a grey beard		of beard's shoes	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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