The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 48

He mounted a flight of steps and entered a hall where a hideous old woman was sitting on a golden chair.

Who acts: man, hideous old woman · What happens: mount, enter, sit · To what, where: flight, hall, golden chair

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hideous 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mounted	nsubj
2	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flight	det
4	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mounted	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 steps	case
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flight	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 entered	cc
8	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mounted	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	obj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
13	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hall	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 chair	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chair	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chair	amod
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mount	past	man	a flight of steps		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Patient
2	enter	past	man not said here	a hall		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
3	sit	past · progressive	a hideous old woman		a golden chair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location

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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