The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 85

Everything in the house was beautifully clean and tidy, and a cheerful honest-looking old woman was sitting by the fire.

Who acts: Everything, cheerful looking old woman · What happens: be, look, sit

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, cheerful looking old woman), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 clean	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everything	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	cop
6	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	7 clean	advmod
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tidy	cc
9	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clean	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sitting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sitting	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
13	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
14	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looking	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 honest	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 woman	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sitting	aux
20	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 clean	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 fire	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 clean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything	beautifully, clean property	tree rules
2	be		Everything not said here		tree rules
3	look	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sit	past · progressive	a cheerful looking old woman	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

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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