The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 13

Becasigue had not gone very far, when a turn of the path brought him face to face with the old woman who was feeding her doves before her cottage.

Who acts: Becasigue, turn, old woman · What happens: not go, bring, face, feed · To what, where: Becasigue, doves

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becasigue, turn, 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	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 brought	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 turn	det
10	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 path	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 path	det
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	nmod
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obj
16	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 brought	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 face	case
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 face	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 woman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 face	nmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 feeding	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 feeding	aux
25	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 woman	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 doves	nmod:poss
27	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 feeding	obj
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 cottage	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cottage	nmod:poss
30	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feeding	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Becasigue			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	a turn of the path	Becasigue			tree rules
3	face	infinitive	a turn of the path not said here			to face with the old woman	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	feed	past · progressive	the old woman	turn's doves	before turn's cottage		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient

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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