The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 61

There the old hag was once more sitting spinning from her distaff, and she cried to Cinderlad;

Who acts: old hag, hag · What happens: be, spin, cry · To what, where: distaff, Cinderlad

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 (old hag, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 sitting	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hag	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hag	amod
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	cop
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 sitting	advmod
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sitting	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 distaff	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 distaff	nmod:poss
12	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spinning	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Cinderlad	case
18	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old hag		there	sit property	tree rules
2	spin	gerund	the old hag not said here		hag's distaff		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from distaff=Trajectory
3	cry speech: express	past	hag	Cinderlad			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cinderlad=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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