The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 52

The old woman was standing raking the fire, and she was doing it with her nose, so long it was.

Who acts: old woman, woman, fire · What happens: stand, rake, do, be · To what, where: fire

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 (old woman, woman, fire), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 standing	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 doing	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 doing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 standing	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 doing	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 nose	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nose	nmod:poss
17	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 standing	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 was	nsubj
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the old woman		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rake	gerund	the old woman not said here	the fire		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fire=Initial_Location
3	do	past · progressive	woman	fire	with woman's nose	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	be	past	fire			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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