Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 33

In the middle of the bush sat a friendly-looking old woman in a most strange dress.

What happens: sit, look · To what, where: looking old woman, middle

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bush	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bush	det
6	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 friendly	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 woman	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 dress	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dress	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 strange	advmod
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dress	amod
18	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a looking old woman		the middle of the bush		in a strange dress	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in middle=Location
2	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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