The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 11

When the youth had run thus for a long time he began to be tired, and when he had held on a little longer he was heartily weary of watching at all, and at the same moment he came to a cleft in a rock where an old woman was sitting spinning with her distaff in her hand.

Who acts: wood, old woman · What happens: run, begin, be, hold, watch, come · To what, where: youth, long time, all, cleft

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, old woman), 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	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 tired	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 tired	cop
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 began	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 held	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 held	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 held	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 held	aux
21	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 run	conj
22	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 weary	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 longer	obl:unmarked
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 weary	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 weary	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 weary	cop
28	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 weary	amod
29	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 held	advcl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 watching	mark
31	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 weary	advcl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 watching	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 came	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 moment	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 moment	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 moment	amod
39	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 weary	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 cleft	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 cleft	det
44	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 rock	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 rock	det
47	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cleft	nmod
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 sitting	advmod
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 woman	det
50	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 woman	amod
51	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sitting	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sitting	aux
53	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 rock	acl:relcl
54	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 sitting	xcomp
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 distaff	case
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 distaff	nmod:poss
57	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 spinning	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 hand	case
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 hand	nmod:poss
60	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 distaff	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect · passive		the youth		time	thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	begin	past	wood	a long time not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	wood not said here				tired property	tree rules
4	hold	past · perfect	wood					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	wood				long, weary property	tree rules
6	watch	gerund	wood not said here		all			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
7	come	past	wood		a cleft in a rock	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cleft=Initial_Location
8	sit	past · progressive	a old woman					tree rules
9	spin	gerund	a old woman not said here				with woman's distaff in woman's hand	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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