The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 121

In the morning Ian awoke, and hastened to the cave where the old hag was sitting, and he struck her dead as she was, before she could cast spells on him.

Who acts: Ian, old hag, hag · What happens: awake, hasten, sit, strike, be, cast · To what, where: cave, hag, spells

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, old hag, hag), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awoke	obl
4	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 awoke	nsubj
5	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hastened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hastened	cc
8	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 awoke	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cave	det
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hastened	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hag	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hag	amod
15	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cave	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 struck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 struck	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 struck	nsubj
21	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awoke	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 struck	obj
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 struck	xcomp
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 was	nsubj
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 struck	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cast	punct
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 cast	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cast	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cast	aux
31	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 struck	conj
32	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cast	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cast	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Ian			morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hasten	participle	Ian not said here		the cave			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination
3	sit	past · progressive	the old hag					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	strike	past	Ian	hag			dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument
5	be	past	hag					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cast	could	hag	spells			on Ian	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=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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