The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 94
One fine day as she was sitting alone she saw an old witch go past.
Who acts: pig, old witch · What happens: sit, see, go past · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pig, old witch), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sitting | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 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 | 10 saw | advcl |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witch | amod |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | past | past | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | pig | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | pig | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go past | infinitive | a old witch | past property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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