The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 44

At last there was no one left but one wretched old hag who was lying behind the stove.

Who acts: one wretched old hag · What happens: leave, lie · To what, where: one, stove

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one wretched old hag), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	acl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hag	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hag	nummod
10	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hag	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hag	amod
12	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lying	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hag	acl:relcl
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 stove	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stove	det
18	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lying	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		no one not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past · progressive	one wretched old hag			the stove			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stove=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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