Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 13

It was turning slowly before the fire, and an elderly woman, as large and strong as if she had been a man in disguise, sat by, throwing one piece of wood after another into the flames.

Who acts: stag, fire · What happens: turn, be, sit by, throw · To what, where: elderly woman, fire, man, disguise, one piece, flames

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, fire), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turning	aux
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 turning	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 woman	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 large	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 large	case
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strong	cc
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 large	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 man	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 large	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 disguise	case
26	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	28 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 throwing	punct
31	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turning	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 piece	nummod
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 throwing	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wood	case
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 another	case
37	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 throwing	obl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 flames	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 flames	det
40	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throwing	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · progressive	stag	a elderly woman	the fire		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before fire=Trajectory
2	is a	past · perfect	fire	a man	disguise			tree rules
3	sit by	past	stag not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	throw	gerund	stag not said here	one piece of wood		after another	into the flames result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer piece=Theme into flame=Result

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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