The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 62

There was no one in the house except an old Lapland woman who was cooking fish over an oil-lamp.

Who acts: one, old Lapland woman · What happens: be, cook · To what, where: fish, oil lamp

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, old Lapland 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	except	except	ADP	_	12 woman	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
11	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 woman	compound
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cooking	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cooking	aux
15	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 woman	acl:relcl
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cooking	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	21 lamp	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lamp	det
19	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lamp	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 oil	punct
21	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cooking	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no one in the house except a old Lapland woman			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cook	past · progressive	a old Lapland woman	fish		a oil lamp			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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