The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 29

Then she shut the door, and the girl found herself back in the world again, not far from her own house; and when she came to the courtyard the old hen, who sat on the top of the wall, called out:

Who acts: Mother, girl, old hen · What happens: shut, find back, come, sit, call out · To what, where: door, Mother, world, old hen, courtyard, top

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 (Mother, girl, old hen), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shut	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	conj
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 found	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 far	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 found	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 house	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 house	amod
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 far	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 courtyard	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 courtyard	det
31	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hen	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hen	amod
34	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hen	acl:relcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 top	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 top	det
40	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 wall	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 wall	det
43	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 top	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 called	punct
45	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 sat	conj
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 called	compound:prt
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	Mother	the door		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	find back	past	the girl	Mother	the world	again	far property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
3	come	past	Mother	the old hen	the courtyard			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Initial_Location
4	sit	past	the old hen		the top of the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
5	call out speech: assert	participle	the old hen not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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