The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 56

The sad little procession had passed some hours in this manner, when, near the gate of a monastery, an old woman appeared round a corner, and suddenly stood before the young man.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: pass, appear, stand · To what, where: sad little procession, manner

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 procession	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 procession	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 procession	amod
4	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hours	det
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 manner	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 manner	det
11	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 when	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 passed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gate	punct
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 monastery	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 monastery	det
20	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gate	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appeared	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	nsubj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	parataxis
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 corner	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 corner	det
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stood	cc
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 stood	advmod
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 appeared	conj
33	before	before	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		the sad little procession	this manner	hour		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in manner=Destination
2	appear	past	a old woman				round a corner	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	a old woman not said here			before the young man	suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before man=Location

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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