More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 17

Then looking down the hole saw her friend, the old dame, walking backwards and forwards in a deep cavern among a group of spinsters all seated on colludie stones, and busy with distaff and spindle.

What happens: look down, see, walk, forward, seat · To what, where: hole, friend, deep cavern, spinsters, colludie stones

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 looking	advmod
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	advcl
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 hole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dame	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dame	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dame	amod
12	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 friend	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walking	punct
14	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	conj
15	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forwards	cc
17	forwards	forward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 cavern	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cavern	det
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cavern	amod
21	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forwards	obl
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 group	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 group	det
24	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forwards	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 spinsters	case
26	spinsters	spinster	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 group	nmod
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 seated	advmod
28	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 spinsters	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 stones	case
30	colludie	colludie	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stones	compound
31	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seated	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 busy	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 busy	cc
34	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 distaff	case
36	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 busy	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spindle	cc
38	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 distaff	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look down	gerund	the hole		then		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Attribute
2	see	past	Causleen's friend and the old dame				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
3	walk	gerund				backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forward	present		a deep cavern		among a group of spinsters	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	seat	participle	spinsters not said here	colludie stones		all property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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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