The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 44

But when the gold began to bubble up the old hag grew so terrified that she fled as if the Evil One himself were pursuing her, and she did not remember to stoop down as she went through the doorway, and so she split her head and died.

Who acts: gold, old hag, hag, sea · What happens: begin up, grow, flee, pursue, not remember, not stoop down · To what, where: bubble, hag, doorway, head

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 (gold, old hag, hag, sea), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bubble	mark
7	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 began	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hag	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hag	amod
11	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 terrified	advmod
14	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 fled	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fled	nsubj
17	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 terrified	advcl
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 Evil	case
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 Evil	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Evil	det
21	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
22	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 Evil	flat
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 pursuing	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pursuing	aux
25	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fled	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pursuing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remember	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remember	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remember	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 remember	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 remember	advmod
32	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 grew	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stoop	mark
34	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 remember	xcomp
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 stoop	compound:prt
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 went	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stoop	advcl
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 doorway	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 doorway	det
41	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 split	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 split	cc
44	so	so	ADV	_	46 split	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 split	nsubj
46	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 remember	ccomp
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 head	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 split	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 died	cc
50	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 split	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin up	past	the gold	bubble			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Eventuality
2	grow	past	the old hag			terrified property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flee	past	hag			as the Evil	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pursue	past · progressive	sea	hag			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	not remember	past · do-support	hag				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not stoop down	to-infinitive	hag not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	hag		the doorway		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through doorway=Initial_Location
8	split	past	hag	hag's head			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
9	die	past	hag not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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