The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 99

At the sight of the yarn the old woman was struck dumb; but when at length she found her voice she asked the girl what magician had helped her to do what no one had done before.

Who acts: woman, magician, one · What happens: strike, find, ask, help, do, sight · To what, where: old woman, sight, voice, length, girl, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, magician, one), 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	_	3 sight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 yarn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 yarn	det
6	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 struck	aux:pass
11	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 struck	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 found	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 length	case
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 struck	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 voice	nmod:poss
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 helped	obj
27	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 helped	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 helped	aux
29	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 asked	ccomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 helped	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 helped	xcomp
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 done	obj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 done	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 done	aux
37	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 do	advcl
38	before	before	ADV	_	37 done	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive		the old woman		the sight of the yarn	dumb property	tree rules
2	find	past	woman	woman's voice		length		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at length=Asset
3	ask speech: ask	past	woman		the girl			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
4	help	past · perfect	magician	woman				tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	past · perfect	no one				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	sight			the yarn				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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