The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 59

Full of this idea she walked up the marble staircase, and entered the little room where her sister-in-law sat, making clothes for her children.

Who acts: lady, sister · What happens: walk up, enter, sit, make · To what, where: marble staircase, little room, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, sister), 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	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 idea	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 idea	det
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Full	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 idea	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 walked	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 staircase	det
9	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 staircase	amod
10	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 entered	cc
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 room	amod
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	obj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 sat	advmod
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sister	nmod:poss
19	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	nsubj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 law	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 law	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 in	punct
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sister	nmod
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 room	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 making	punct
26	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 making	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 children	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 children	nmod:poss
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 making	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk up	past	lady	the marble staircase		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory
2	enter	past	lady not said here	the little room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	sit	past	lady's sister in law			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	gerund	lady's sister in law not said here	clothes	for lady's children	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clothes=Product for child=Beneficiary

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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