The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 35

‘Be satisfied,’ said the voice of the old woman, who seemed to be standing unseen at Tephany’s elbow.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, say, seem, stand · To what, where: voice, elbow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 satisfied	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 satisfied	cop
3	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 satisfied	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 satisfied	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 voice	det
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 woman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 voice	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 standing	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 standing	aux
18	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 seemed	xcomp
19	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 standing	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 elbow	case
21	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 elbow	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Tephany	case
23	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				satisfied property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the voice of the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic
3	seem	past	the old woman				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	stand	to-infinitive · progressive	the old woman not said here		Tephany's elbow	unseen property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at elbow=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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