The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 38
When he arrived, this old woman also was standing drawing water out of the well with her nose.
Who acts: other two · What happens: arrive, stand, draw · To what, where: water, well
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 (other two), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 standing | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 standing | aux |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 woman | nmod |
| 11 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 standing | advcl |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 nose | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nose | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | other two = two | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | water | the well | with woman's nose | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out well=Initial_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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