The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 16

When she had gathered them all up into a heap she went on her way again, and came at length to a little house, at the door of which sat an old woman.

Who acts: girl, door · What happens: gather up, go, come, sit · To what, where: apples, way, length, old woman

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, door), 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	4 gathered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gathered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	aux
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gathered	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 gathered	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 heap	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 heap	det
10	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 length	case
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 house	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 house	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 house	amod
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 door	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 door	acl:relcl
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 woman	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 woman	amod
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather up	past · perfect	girl	apples = apple		into a heap	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into heap=Co-Patient
2	go	past	girl		girl's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	come	past	girl not said here		length	to a little house; at the door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	sit	past	the door	a old woman			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=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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