English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 15

He could see some light a long way before him, and he made up to it, and found the back door and knocked at it, till one of the maid-servants came and asked him what he wanted.

Who acts: lad · What happens: see, make up, find, knock, come, ask · To what, where: light, way, back door, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl:unmarked
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	compound
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knocked	cc
25	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knocked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
29	till	till	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 knocked	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 servants	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 servants	det
33	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 servants	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 maid	punct
35	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 asked	cc
38	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 asked	iobj
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 wanted	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	nsubj
42	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 asked	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	lad	some light		before Jack	a long way obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	make up	past	lad		way			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	find	past		the back door				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
4	knock	past					at way	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
5	come	past	lad not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	lad not said here		lad			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	want	past	lad					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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