--- title: And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from wi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from within there was heard a low, pleasant frizzling, like that which is heard when one whisks yellow batter with a wooden ladle into a hot frying-pan. Who acts: Little, kitchen door, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/145/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/) / 145 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 145 And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from within there was heard a low, pleasant frizzling, like that which is heard when one whisks yellow batter with a wooden ladle into a hot frying-pan. **Who acts:** Little, kitchen door, one · **What happens:** see, be, hear, whisk · **To what, where:** low pleasant frizzling, that, yellow batter, hot frying pan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, kitchen door, one), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:14:145 # text = And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from within there was heard a low, pleasant frizzling, like that which is heard when one whisks yellow batter with a wooden ladle into a hot frying-pan. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Lasse Lasse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 from from SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 within within ADP IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 frizzling frizzling NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nsubj _ _ 32 whisks whisk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 batter batter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ladle ladle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Little | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | the kitchen door | | | | | open *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | past · passive | Little *not said here* | a low pleasant frizzling | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: frizzling=Stimulus | | 4 | **hear** | present · passive | | that | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **whisk** | present | one | yellow batter | | | | into a hot frying pan *result*; with a wooden ladle | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent batter=Patient with ladle=Instrument into pan=Result | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/146/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/)