The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 39

However, she was so enchanted at the words of the crab that she smiled sweetly and held out her hand; it was taken, not by the crab, which had stood there only a moment before, but by a little old woman smartly dressed in white and crimson with green ribbons in her grey hair.

Who acts: queen, crab · What happens: enchant, smile, hold out, take, stand, dress · To what, where: queen, words, hand, it, crab, white

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, crab), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 enchanted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enchanted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enchanted	aux:pass
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 enchanted	advmod
6	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enchanted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 crab	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crab	det
12	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 smiled	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smiled	nsubj
15	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enchanted	advcl
16	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	15 smiled	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 held	cc
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smiled	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 held	compound:prt
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 held	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 taken	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taken	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux:pass
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 enchanted	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crab	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 crab	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 crab	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crab	det
30	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taken	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 stood	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stood	aux
34	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 crab	acl
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 stood	advmod
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 moment	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 moment	det
38	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
39	before	before	ADV	_	34 stood	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dressed	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 dressed	cc
42	by	by	ADP	_	46 woman	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 woman	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 woman	amod
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 woman	amod
46	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dressed	obl
47	smartly	smartly	ADV	_	48 dressed	advmod
48	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 enchanted	parataxis
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 white	case
50	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 dressed	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 crimson	cc
52	crimson	crimson	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 dressed	conj
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 ribbons	case
54	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ribbons	amod
55	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 crimson	obl
56	in	in	ADP	_	59 hair	case
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 hair	nmod:poss
58	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 hair	amod
59	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ribbons	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	past · passive		queen	the words of the crab		however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	smile	past	queen				sweetly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold out	past	queen not said here	queen's hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	take	past · passive	the crab	it				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	stand	past · perfect · passive		the crab	there	moment	before property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	dress	participle			white		by a little old woman; smartly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	word			the crab				nom word «communication 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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