The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 57

The old woman picked them up, and tucking them under her arm went on her way, keeping at a little distance behind the royal huntsmen, who in their turn followed the prince.

Who acts: old woman, tucking, royal huntsmen · What happens: pick up, tuck, go, keep, follow · To what, where: kettle, arm, way, royal huntsmen, prince, turn

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, tucking, royal huntsmen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
9	tucking	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 went	csubj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tucking	obj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arm	nmod:poss
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tucking	obl
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keeping	punct
19	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 distance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 distance	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distance	amod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keeping	obl
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 huntsmen	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 huntsmen	det
26	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 huntsmen	amod
27	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keeping	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 followed	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 followed	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 turn	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 turn	nmod:poss
32	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 followed	obl
33	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 huntsmen	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 followed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the old woman	kettle			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	tuck	gerund		kettle	woman's arm		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme under arm=Trajectory
3	go	past	tucking		woman's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
4	keep	gerund	tucking not said here		the royal huntsmen	at a little distance	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
5	follow	past	the royal huntsmen	the prince	kettle's turn		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in turn=Trajectory

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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