The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 104

The wood-cutter’s wife was looking out of the window when the mules drew up before the door, so heavily laden that they almost sank under their burdens.

Who acts: wife, mules · What happens: look out, draw up, lade, sink, burden · To what, where: window, burdens

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, mules), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cutter	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cutter	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 cutter	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	aux
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 window	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 drew	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mules	det
15	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 drew	compound:prt
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laden	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 laden	advmod
23	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	24 laden	advmod
24	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 looking	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 sank	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sank	nsubj
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 sank	advmod
28	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laden	advcl
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 burdens	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 burdens	nmod:poss
31	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sank	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look out	past · progressive	the wood cutter's wife	the window				tree rules
2	draw up	past	the mules			before the door		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lade	participle	the wood cutter's wife not said here				heavily property	tree rules
4	sink	past	mules = mule		mules's burdens		almost property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	burden		mules = mule					nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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