The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 23

All at once she became aware that she was not alone, for behind her stood a tiny old woman in a cap, who was as ugly again as herself and quite as lame.

Who acts: All, Princess, cap · What happens: become, not be, stand, be · To what, where: tiny old woman, cap

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (All, Princess, cap), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 became	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 All	nmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 alone	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alone	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alone	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 alone	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 aware	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 stood	mark
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	obl
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 cap	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cap	det
23	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ugly	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 ugly	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ugly	cop
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 ugly	case
28	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cap	conj
29	again	again	ADV	_	16 stood	advmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 herself	case
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 stood	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lame	cc
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 lame	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 lame	case
35	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	All				aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not is	past	Princess				alone property	tree rules
3	stand	past	All not said here	a tiny old woman	a cap	again	behind Princess; as Princess	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme behind she=Destination
4	is	past	a cap				ugly property	tree rules

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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