The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 43

It was a long journey, even for a witch, but, like other things, it ended at last; and the old woman stood before the platform of stakes, where the body of Ball-Carrier lay.

Who acts: ball, old woman, body · What happens: be, end, stand, lie · To what, where: long journey, last, platform

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, old woman, body), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 journey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 journey	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 journey	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 journey	amod
5	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 witch	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 witch	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 witch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 journey	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ended	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ended	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 but	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 things	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ended	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 things	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ended	nsubj
19	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 journey	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ended	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ended	conj
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 platform	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 platform	det
30	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 stakes	case
32	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 platform	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lay	punct
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 lay	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 body	det
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lay	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Ball	case
38	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 body	nmod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 Carrier	punct
40	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ball	conj
41	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stakes	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 journey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ball	a long journey and a witch			tree rules
2	end	past	ball		last	like other things	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	stand	past	the old woman		the platform of stakes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before platform=Location
4	lie	past	the body of Ball and Carrier				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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