More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 19

Another of the sisterhood, who sat in a distant corner reeling the yarn, was marked, in addition, by grey eyes, which seemed starting from her head, and a long hooked nose.

Who acts: sisterhood, distant corner, grey eyes · What happens: sit, reel, mark, seem, start, hook · To what, where: distant corner, yarn, addition, head

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: who acts (sisterhood, distant corner, grey eyes), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sisterhood	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sisterhood	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisterhood	det
4	sisterhood	sisterhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sisterhood	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 corner	det
10	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 corner	amod
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	reeling	reel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 corner	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 yarn	det
14	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reeling	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 marked	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 marked	aux:pass
17	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 addition	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 addition	case
20	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eyes	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 marked	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eyes	acl:relcl
28	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 seemed	xcomp
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 starting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 nose	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 nose	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 nose	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nose	amod
36	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 nose	amod
37	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sisterhood	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sisterhood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	another sisterhood and a long hooked nose		a distant corner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	reel	gerund	a distant corner not said here	the yarn		tree rules
3	mark	past · passive	another sisterhood and a long hooked nose not said here		addition	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: in addition=Destination
4	seem	past	grey eyes			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	start	gerund	grey eyes not said here		Habetrot's head	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	hook	participle				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: «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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