The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

'Here is the sieve, mistress,' cried the girl, going to the room where the old woman was sitting.

Who acts: sieve, old woman · What happens: be, cry, go, sit · To what, where: girl, room

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sieve, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sieve	det
5	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mistress	punct
7	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sieve	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 sitting	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	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 room	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sieve and mistress			here property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the sieve and mistress not said here	the girl			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
3	go	gerund	the sieve and mistress not said here		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
4	sit	past · progressive	the old woman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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