The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 48

Here he found an old woman sitting, whom he greeted pleasantly.

Who acts: hare, old woman · What happens: find, sit, greet · To what, where: old woman

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whom	punct
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sitting	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 greeted	nsubj
11	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whom	acl:relcl
12	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	11 greeted	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	hare	a old woman	here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
2	sit	gerund	a old woman not said here	a old woman			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	greet speech: greet	past	hare			pleasantly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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