The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 66

“But where am I to move it to, my child?” asked the old woman, looking up to the nest, and at the same moment trying to steady the kettle with one hand and the tripod with the other.

Who acts: old woman, same moment · What happens: move, ask, look up, try · To what, where: patience, kettle · Speech: someone speaks here

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, same moment), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 move	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 where	cc
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 move	advmod
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 move	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 move	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 move	mark
7	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 move	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 child	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 move	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 move	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 move	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 asked	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 looking	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 nest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nest	det
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 moment	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 moment	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 moment	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moment	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moment	amod
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obl
31	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 moment	acl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 steady	mark
33	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trying	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 kettle	det
35	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trying	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 hand	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hand	nummod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trying	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tripod	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tripod	det
41	tripod	tripod	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hand	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 other	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 other	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trying	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move not said to happen, in a quote	present	the old woman = woman	patience		to my child result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past	the old woman		moment		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look up	gerund	the old woman not said here			to the nest	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nest=Theme
4	try	gerund	the same moment not said here	the kettle		with one hand and the tripod; with the other; steady property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with hand=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: «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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