The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 4

Here he entered and found himself in a room where a gray-haired woman was spinning and a beautiful girl was sitting in the window combing her golden hair.

Who acts: Peter, haired woman, beautiful girl, window · What happens: enter, find, spin, sit, comb · To what, where: Peter, room, window, golden hair

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, haired woman, beautiful girl, window), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 entered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 found	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 spinning	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
12	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 haired	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 gray	punct
14	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spinning	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spinning	aux
17	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 room	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sitting	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 spinning	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 window	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 window	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
27	combing	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 window	acl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hair	nmod:poss
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hair	amod
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 combing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enter	past	Peter		here	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Peter not said here	Peter	a room	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	spin	past · progressive	a haired woman			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past · progressive	a beautiful girl		the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location
5	comb	gerund	the window not said here	girl's golden hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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