The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 1

‘What can that be?’ said the old woman, as she peeped out of the door.

Who acts: that, old woman, woman · What happens: be, say, peep out · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, old woman, woman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 be	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 peeped	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 peeped	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 peeped	nsubj
15	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 door	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	can	can	that		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	peep out	past	woman	the door	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme

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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