The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 79

A woman as tall as a giant was leaning over the oven.

Who acts: giant · What happens: lean · To what, where: oven

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tall	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 leaning	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaning	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 leaning	aux
9	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tall	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 oven	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oven	det
12	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaning	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	past · progressive	a giant			the oven			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over oven=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 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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