More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 7

Well, one day, as she sat at her door paring potatoes, over the stile and up the path came a tall lad with a long nose and goggle eyes and his hands in his pockets.

Who acts: woman, stile · What happens: sit, pare, come · To what, where: door, potatoes, pockets

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, stile), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sat	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 door	nmod:poss
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	paring	pare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
13	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 paring	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stile	punct
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 stile	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stile	det
17	stile	stile	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 path	cc
19	up	up	ADP	_	21 path	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 path	det
21	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stile	conj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lad	det
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lad	amod
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 nose	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 nose	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nose	amod
29	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lad	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eyes	cc
31	goggle	goggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eyes	compound
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nose	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hands	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hands	nmod:poss
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eyes	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 pockets	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 pockets	nmod:poss
38	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	woman		woman's door	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	pare	gerund	woman not said here	potatoes			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient
3	come	past	the stile and the path		lad's pockets		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pocket=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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