The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 95

The old woman instantly seized the bigger, and staggering under the weight of it, disappeared into the forest, hardly waiting even to say good-bye.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: seize, stagger, disappear, wait, say · To what, where: weight, forest, good bye · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	nsubj
4	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	5 seized	advmod
5	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bigger	det
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 seized	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 staggering	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 staggering	cc
10	staggering	stagger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seized	conj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 weight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weight	det
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 staggering	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 weight	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disappeared	punct
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disappeared	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waiting	punct
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	23 waiting	advmod
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 disappeared	advcl
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 say	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 waiting	advcl
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bye	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
29	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the old woman			instantly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stagger	gerund	the old woman not said here		the weight of weight		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory
3	disappear	past	the old woman not said here		the forest		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	gerund	the old woman not said here			hardly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	good bye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic

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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