The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 41

The old woman ran lightly down a path along which the queen had been a hundred times before, but it seemed so different she could hardly believe it was the same.

Who acts: old woman, it, queen, path · What happens: run, seem, believe, be · To what, where: path · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, it, queen, path), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
9	along	along	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 been	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 been	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 been	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 path	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 times	nummod
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 before	obl:unmarked
18	before	before	ADV	_	14 been	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 different	advmod
24	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 seemed	xcomp
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 believe	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 believe	aux
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	28 believe	advmod
28	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 different	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 same	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 same	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 same	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 believe	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the old woman	a path	lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory
2	seem	past	it		different property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	believe	could	queen		hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	path		same property	tree rules

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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