The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 41

At last, one day, when he was eating his dinner, the old woman who always spoke first, said to him:

Who acts: noise, old woman · What happens: eat, speak, say · To what, where: dinner, noise · 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 (noise, 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 day	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eating	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eating	aux
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 day	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dinner	nmod:poss
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 woman	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dinner	appos
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spoke	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 spoke	advmod
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woman	acl:relcl
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 spoke	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	noise	noise's dinner				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	speak speech: other	past	the old woman				always, first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past			noise	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=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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