The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 65
Outside it an aged woman was sitting, playing with a golden apple.
What happens: sit, play
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sitting | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 apple | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apple | amod |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | outside a aged woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside woman=Location | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | with a golden apple | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme |
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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