The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 34

Then the old woman came out of the water, holding the girl, now tall and slender, by the hand.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: come out, hold · To what, where: water, girl

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holding	punct
11	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tall	punct
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 tall	advmod
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 slender	cc
18	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tall	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hand	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tall	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the old woman	the water			then		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result
2	hold	gerund	the old woman not said here	the girl					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme

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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