The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 3
An old woman was standing at the door of the hut when Eglantine drew near, with the white doe trotting by her side.
Who acts: old woman, Eglantine, white doe · What happens: stand, draw, trot · To what, where: door
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 (old woman, Eglantine, white doe), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 drew | advmod |
| 13 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | advcl |
| 15 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 drew | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 doe | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 doe | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 doe | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 doe | amod |
| 20 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | conj |
| 21 | trotting | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 doe | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trotting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | a old woman | the door of the hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Eglantine | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | trot | gerund | the white doe not said here | by Eglantine's side | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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