The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 98

At this wonderful news the old woman flew downstairs, almost tumbling down ill her eagerness to see the treasure; but when her husband led her to the pail it was perfectly empty!

Who acts: old woman, husband, pail · What happens: fly, tumble down, see, lead, be · To what, where: wonderful news, ill eagerness, treasure, woman, pail

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. 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, husband, pail), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 news	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 news	det
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 news	amod
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tumbling	punct
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 tumbling	advmod
12	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 flew	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eagerness	amod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eagerness	nmod:poss
16	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tumbling	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tumbling	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 treasure	det
20	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 led	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 led	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 led	advmod
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 led	nsubj
26	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 led	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 pail	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pail	det
30	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 led	obl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 empty	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 empty	cop
33	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	34 empty	advmod
34	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pail	acl:relcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the old woman		this wonderful news	downstairs property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at news=Location
2	tumble down	gerund	the old woman not said here	woman's ill eagerness		almost property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eagerness=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the treasure			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus
4	lead	past	woman's husband	woman	the pail		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to pail=Destination
5	is	past	pail	the pail not said here		empty, perfectly property	tree rules

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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