The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 22

Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets.

Who acts: mother, Dilah, man · What happens: come, visit, be, sit, talk, spy out · To what, where: Dilah, willows, baskets

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 (mother, Dilah, man), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 able	nmod:poss
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 able	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 able	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 able	cop
10	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 visit	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sitting	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 sitting	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sitting	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sitting	aux
19	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
20	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 sitting	xcomp
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 talking	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spied	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spied	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spied	aux:pass
25	spied	spy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sitting	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 spied	compound:prt
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 man	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spied	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 come	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 man	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 cut	mark
34	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	xcomp
35	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cut	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 weave	mark
37	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 cut	advcl
38	into	into	ADP	_	39 baskets	case
39	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 weave	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	woman's mother					tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	woman's mother not said here					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	mother				able, whenever property	tree rules
4	sit	past · progressive	Dilah			day		tree rules
5	talk	gerund	Dilah not said here				together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	spy out	past · passive	a man	Dilah				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
7	come	past · perfect	a man					tree rules
8	cut	to-infinitive	a man not said here	willows				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset willow=Product
9	weave	to-infinitive	a man not said here		baskets			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into basket=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 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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