Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 11

Just as this fatal deed was done, the door of the apartment opened, and in came King Pluto, followed by Quicksilver, who had been urging him to let his little prisoner go.

Who acts: door, Quicksilver, little prisoner · What happens: do, open, come, follow, urge, let · To what, where: fatal deed, Pluto, little prisoner

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Quicksilver, little prisoner), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 done	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 done	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 deed	det
4	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deed	amod
5	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 done	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opened	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 apartment	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 apartment	det
13	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	nmod
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 came	case
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 opened	conj
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Pluto	nmod:desc
20	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 came	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 followed	punct
22	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 came	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 Quicksilver	case
24	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 urging	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 urging	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 urging	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 urging	aux
29	urging	urge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 Quicksilver	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 urging	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 let	mark
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 urging	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 prisoner	nmod:poss
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 prisoner	amod
35	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 let	obj
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 let	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this fatal deed			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	open	past	the door of the apartment				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the door of the apartment not said here	Pluto King			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pluto=Theme
4	follow	participle	the door of the apartment not said here			by Quicksilver	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by quicksilver=Location
5	urge	past · perfect · progressive	Quicksilver		Pluto		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	let	to-infinitive	Quicksilver not said here	door's little prisoner			tree rules
7	go	infinitive	door's little prisoner not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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