The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 10

Then a small grating opened, and there appeared the tip of a huge nose, which belonged to the ugliest old woman that ever was seen.

Who acts: small grating, huge nose · What happens: open, appear, belong, see · To what, where: tip, ugliest old woman

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small grating, huge nose), 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 opened	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grating	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grating	amod
4	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 appeared	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 appeared	cc
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 appeared	advmod
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tip	det
11	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 nose	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nose	det
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nose	amod
15	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tip	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 belonged	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 belonged	nsubj
18	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 nose	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 woman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
21	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 woman	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belonged	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seen	nsubj
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 seen	advmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 woman	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	participle	a small grating			then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appear	past	a small grating not said here	the tip of a huge nose	there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tip=Theme
3	belong	past	a huge nose				to the ugliest old woman	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	see	past · passive		the ugliest old woman		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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