The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 76

But she was not really unforgiving, and very soon she slid quietly out of her hiding-place, and taking the silk from Laufer’s hands began to weave it.

Who acts: Laufer, taking · What happens: not be, slide, take, begin, weave · To what, where: hiding place, silk, hands

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laufer, taking), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 unforgiving	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 unforgiving	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unforgiving	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 unforgiving	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 unforgiving	advmod
6	unforgiving	unforgiving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slid	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 soon	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 slid	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slid	nsubj
12	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unforgiving	conj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 slid	advmod
14	out	out	ADP	_	19 place	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 place	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 place	nmod:poss
17	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hiding	punct
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taking	cc
22	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 began	csubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 silk	det
24	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taking	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 hands	case
26	Laufer	Laufer	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hands	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Laufer	case
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 taking	obl
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unforgiving	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 weave	mark
31	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 weave	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unforgiving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Laufer			unforgiving property	tree rules
2	slide	past	Laufer		Laufer's hiding place	quietly, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out place=Trajectory
3	take	gerund		the silk	Laufer's hands		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent silk=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	taking				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weave	to-infinitive	taking not said here	silk			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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