The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 19

He walked through the maize without knowing where he was going, when he heard a sound of knocking, and saw two old blind women crushing their food between two stones.

Who acts: bird, two old blind women · What happens: walk, know, go, hear, see, crush · To what, where: maize, sound, two old blind women, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, two old blind women), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 maize	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maize	det
5	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 knowing	mark
7	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 going	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 knowing	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sound	det
17	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 knocking	case
19	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sound	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 women	nummod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 women	amod
25	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 women	amod
26	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	obj
27	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 women	acl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 food	nmod:poss
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crushing	obj
30	between	between	ADP	_	32 stones	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 stones	nummod
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crushing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	bird		the maize		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through maize=Trajectory
2	know	gerund	bird not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · progressive	bird				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	bird	a sound of knocking			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	see	past	bird not said here	two old blind women			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
6	crush	gerund	two old blind women not said here	fields's food		between two stones	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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