The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 84

At the sight of these wonders even the scolding tongue ceased, and the woman approached, and took the stones in her hand, setting greedily aside those that were the largest and most costly.

Who acts: woman, that · What happens: cease, approach, take, set, be, sight · To what, where: scolding tongue, sight, stones, hand, those, wonders

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, that), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 approached	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wonders	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 wonders	det
6	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sight	nmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 tongue	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tongue	det
9	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tongue	compound
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wonders	nmod
11	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tongue	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 approached	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 approached	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 approached	nsubj
16	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 approached	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stones	det
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 took	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 setting	punct
26	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 took	advcl
27	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	28 aside	advmod
28	aside	aside	ADV	_	26 setting	advmod
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 setting	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 largest	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 largest	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 largest	det
33	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 those	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 costly	cc
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 costly	advmod
36	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 largest	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	participle		the scolding tongue not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	approach	past	the woman		the sight of this wonders the scolding tongue		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	the woman not said here	the stones	woman's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in hand=Location
4	set	gerund	the woman not said here	those		aside property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result
5	is	past	that			large property	tree rules
6	be		that not said here				tree rules
7	sight			this wonders the scolding tongue			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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