Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 67

The folding doors swung quickly back, and left him standing behind the pillar, in the solitude of the outer hall.

Who acts: folding doors · What happens: swing back, leave, stand · To what, where: Eurylochus, pillar

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folding doors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doors	det
2	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doors	compound
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swung	nsubj
4	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 swung	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 swung	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swung	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	obj
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 left	advcl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 pillar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pillar	det
14	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 solitude	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 solitude	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 solitude	det
18	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 hall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hall	det
21	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hall	amod
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 solitude	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing back	past	the folding doors			quickly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	past	the folding doors not said here	Eurylochus			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	stand	gerund	the folding doors not said here		the pillar	in the solitude of the outer hall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind pillar=Location

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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