The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 75

There sat Matte in his ragged grey jacket, quite alone, on the steps of the old hut, mending a net.

What happens: sit, mend, step · To what, where: Matte, ragged grey jacket, net, old hut

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 sat	expl
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 jacket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 jacket	nmod:poss
6	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jacket	amod
7	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jacket	amod
8	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 alone	punct
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 alone	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 steps	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 steps	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 steps	det
15	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 hut	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hut	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hut	amod
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 steps	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mending	punct
21	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 net	det
23	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mending	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Matte	Matte's ragged grey jacket; there	on the steps of the old hut; alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent matte=Theme in jacket=Location
2	mend	gerund	a net			tree rules
3	step		the old hut			nom step «act transitive»: of=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 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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