Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 57

Out of the thicket stepped a tall old woman, her face quite brown, and her hair of a deep shining black; the whites of her eyes glittered like a Moor's; on her back she carried a bundle, and in her hand a knotted stick.

Who acts: whites, fright · What happens: step, shine, glitter, carry, knot · To what, where: tall old woman, thicket, bundle, back

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whites, fright), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 thicket	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 thicket	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thicket	det
4	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obl
5	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 face	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	conj
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 brown	advmod
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 face	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hair	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 deep	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 deep	det
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
22	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 deep	advcl
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shining	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 glittered	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 whites	det
26	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 glittered	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 glittered	nsubj
30	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stepped	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 Moor	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Moor	det
33	Moor	Moor	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 glittered	obl
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Moor	case
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 carried	punct
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 back	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 back	nmod:poss
38	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	obl
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 carried	nsubj
40	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stepped	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bundle	det
42	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 stick	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 stick	cc
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 hand	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hand	nmod:poss
47	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stick	obl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 stick	det
49	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 stick	amod
50	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carried	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past		a tall old woman and fright's face	the thicket	fright's hair obl	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location woman=Theme
2	shine	gerund				black property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	glitter	past	the whites			like a Moor	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	past	fright	a bundle	fright's back	a knotted stick obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
5	knot	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: «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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