The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 33

So, half-blinded by her tears, the old woman went home the way she had come, and running in at the door, she flung herself down in front of the fire.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: blind, go, come, run, fling down · To what, where: way, door, help, front

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 blinded	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 blinded	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 half	punct
5	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tears	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tears	nmod:poss
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blinded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blinded	parataxis
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 way	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 running	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 running	cc
22	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 running	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 door	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 running	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flung	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flung	nsubj
29	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blinded	parataxis
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 flung	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 flung	compound:prt
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 front	case
33	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flung	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 fire	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fire	det
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 front	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blinded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blind	participle				by help's tears	tree rules
2	go	past	the old woman	the way		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	woman	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	run	gerund	the old woman not said here		the door		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory
5	fling down	past	woman	help	front of the fire		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in front=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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