More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 5

When she looked up, she was surprised to see by the margin of the stream an old woman, quite unknown to her, drawing out the thread as she basked in the sun. There was nothing very remarkable in her appearance, except the length and thickness of her lips, only she was seated on a self-bored stone.

Who acts: girl · What happens: look up, be, see, draw out, bask, seat · To what, where: old woman, girl, thread, sun., bored stone

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 (girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 looked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 surprised	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 looked	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 surprised	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 surprised	cop
8	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 surprised	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 margin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 margin	det
13	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 stream	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stream	det
16	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 margin	nmod
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unknown	punct
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 unknown	advmod
22	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surprised	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unknown	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drawing	punct
26	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 unknown	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 drawing	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thread	det
29	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drawing	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 basked	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 basked	nsubj
32	basked	bask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drawing	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 sun.	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun.	det
35	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 basked	obl
36	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sun.	acl:relcl
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 was	nsubj
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 remarkable	advmod
40	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nothing	amod
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 appearance	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 appearance	nmod:poss
43	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 remarkable	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 length	punct
45	except	except	ADP	_	47 length	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 length	det
47	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 basked	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 thickness	cc
49	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 length	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 lips	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 lips	nmod:poss
52	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 length	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 seated	punct
54	only	only	ADV	_	57 seated	advmod
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 seated	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 seated	aux:pass
57	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 length	parataxis
58	on	on	ADP	_	63 stone	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 stone	det
60	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 bored	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 self	punct
62	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 stone	amod
63	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 seated	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	girl					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	girl				surprised property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	girl not said here	a old woman			by the margin of the stream	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	be		girl not said here		girl			tree rules
5	draw out	gerund	girl not said here	the thread				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
6	bask	past	girl			the sun.		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	seat	past · passive		girl		a bored stone		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value

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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