The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 48

The tap of a stick made her look up, and standing before her she saw a little old woman, whose face was strange to her.

Who acts: tap, Tephany, face, stick · What happens: make, look up, stand, see, be, tap · To what, where: Tephany, little old woman

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tap, Tephany, face, stick), 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	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tap	nmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 look	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 standing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 standing	cc
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	advcl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 saw	nmod:poss
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 standing	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 strange	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strange	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 strange	cop
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 strange	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the tap of a stick	Tephany			tree rules
2	look up	infinitive	Tephany not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	the tap of a stick not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Tephany	a little old woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	is	past	face		Tephany	strange property	tree rules
6	tap		a stick				nom tap «event intransitive»: of=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 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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