The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 18
And in a moment the old woman appeared holding the baby in her arms.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: appear, hold · To what, where: baby, arms
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 appeared | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 appeared | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 holding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the old woman | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the old woman not said here | the baby | woman's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in arm=Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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