The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 36

So she went away, and when she had walked a short distance she came to a little hut which stood all alone in a small wood, hard by the King’s palace.

Who acts: maid, little hut · What happens: go away, walk, come, stand · To what, where: short distance, small wood

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, little hut), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 walked	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walked	aux
10	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 distance	det
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 distance	amod
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 distance	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 hut	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hut	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hut	amod
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hut	acl:relcl
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 alone	advmod
23	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stood	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 wood	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wood	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wood	amod
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hard	punct
29	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wood	amod
30	by	by	ADP	_	34 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 palace	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 King	case
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hard	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	maid			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past · perfect	maid	a short distance			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	maid	a short distance not said here		to a little hut	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
4	stand	past	a little hut		a small wood	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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