The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 11
So he went in, and inside there was an old woman who was busy about some work.
Who acts: house, old woman · What happens: go in, be · To what, where: old woman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 was | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 woman | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 busy | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 busy | cop |
| 15 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | acl:relcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 busy | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a old woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a old woman | about some work; busy property | tree rules |
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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