More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 1

So off he went after his tea, and there she was, sitting by the fire, and stirring a big pot.

Who acts: he, she · What happens: go, sit, stir · To what, where: big pot

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, she), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 tea	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tea	nmod:poss
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sitting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sitting	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 sitting	expl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sitting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sitting	aux
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sitting	punct
14	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stirring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stirring	cc
20	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sitting	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pot	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pot	amod
23	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stirring	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			after his tea		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past · progressive	she		there		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	stir	gerund	she not said here	a big pot				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pot=Experiencer

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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