The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

Towards evening she reached the spot where the old woman was leaning against the gate- post, but she passed her by without a word.

Who acts: likeness, old woman · What happens: reach, lean, pass · To what, where: spot, gate post, woman

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (likeness, 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spot	det
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 leaning	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaning	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 leaning	aux
12	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spot	acl
13	against	against	ADP	_	17 post	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 post	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 post	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 gate	punct
17	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaning	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 passed	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 word	case
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 word	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	likeness	the spot		evening		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
2	lean	past · progressive	the old woman		the gate post			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against post=Location
3	pass	past	likeness	woman			by a word	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent her=Theme by word=Destination

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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