The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 51

An old, old woman now spoke: she was the mother of Renelde’s grandmother, and was more than ninety years old.

Who acts: old old woman, woman · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: old, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old old woman, woman), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 old	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	nsubj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 spoke	advmod
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mother	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mother	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 grandmother	case
14	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 grandmother	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Renelde	case
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 more	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 more	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 more	cop
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	22 ninety	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 more	fixed
22	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 old	obl:unmarked
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spoke	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	a old old woman	old	now		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	woman	the mother		of Renelde's grandmother	tree rules
3	is	past				more 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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