The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 16

As he went he saw a woman with a group of little girls round her, teaching them how to dress hair.

Who acts: fish · What happens: go, see, teach, dress · To what, where: woman, girls, hair

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 group	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 group	det
10	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woman	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 girls	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girls	amod
13	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 group	nmod
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 girls	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 teaching	punct
17	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saw	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 teaching	obj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 dress	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 dress	mark
21	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 teaching	xcomp
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dress	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	fish				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	fish	a woman		with a group of little girls round woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	teach speech: other	gerund	fish not said here		girls = girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dress	to-infinitive	fish not said here	hair			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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