The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 34

When he had run after the foals for a long, long time and was hot and tired, he passed by a cleft in the rock where an old woman was sitting spinning with a distaff, and she called to him:

Who acts: Master, old woman, woman · What happens: run, be, pass, sit, spin, call · To what, where: Master · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Master, old woman, 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	_	4 run	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 passed	advcl
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 foals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foals	det
7	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hot	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hot	cop
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 run	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tired	cc
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hot	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 cleft	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cleft	det
24	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 rock	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rock	det
27	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cleft	nmod
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 sitting	advmod
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woman	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sitting	aux
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 rock	acl:relcl
34	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sitting	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 distaff	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 distaff	det
37	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spinning	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 called	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 called	cc
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 called	nsubj
41	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 called	obl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect	Master		after the foals; time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Master not said here			hot property	tree rules
3	be		Master not said here				tree rules
4	pass	past	Master			by a cleft in the rock	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by cleft=Location
5	sit	past · progressive	a old woman				tree rules
6	spin	gerund	a old woman not said here			with a distaff	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	call	past	woman	Master			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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