The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 24

After a long, long time he came to a small hut at the foot of a rock, outside which an old woman was standing drawing water up from a well with her nose, it was so long.

Who acts: son, old woman, water · What happens: come, stand, draw up, be · To what, where: small hut, water, nose

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, old woman, water), 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	After	after	ADP	_	6 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 hut	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hut	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hut	amod
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 foot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 foot	det
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hut	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rock	det
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foot	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 standing	punct
20	outside	outside	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 standing	obl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 standing	aux
26	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
27	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 standing	advcl
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drawing	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 drawing	compound:prt
30	from	from	ADP	_	35 nose	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 nose	det
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 nose	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 nose	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nose	nmod:poss
35	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drawing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 long	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 long	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 long	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 long	advmod
40	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 drawing	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	son		a small hut at the foot of a rock	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
2	stand	past · progressive	a old woman					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside which=Location
3	draw up	gerund	a old woman not said here	water	woman's nose			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from nose=Initial_Location
4	is	past	water				long 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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