The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 134

They were very old, and as grey-headed as a pigeon, and the old woman had such a long nose that she sat in the chimney corner and used it to stir the fire.

Who acts: lights, old woman, long nose · What happens: be, head, have, sit, use, stir · To what, where: long nose, chimney corner, nose, fire

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights, old woman, long nose), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 headed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 headed	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 headed	mark
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 headed	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grey	punct
10	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 pigeon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pigeon	det
13	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 headed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 nose	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nose	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nose	amod
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sat	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 nose	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 corner	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 corner	det
29	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 corner	compound
30	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 used	cc
32	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 used	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 stir	mark
35	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 used	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stir	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	lights = light			old property	tree rules
2	head	participle	lights = light not said here			as a pigeon	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the old woman	such long nose			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
4	sit	past	such long nose		the chimney corner		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	use	past	such long nose not said here	nose			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	stir	to-infinitive	such long nose not said here	the fire			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer

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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