The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 13

Meanwhile the old woman was standing at the mortar pounding the rise that was to serve them for the week with a pestle that made her arms ache with its weight.

Who acts: old woman, mortar, rise, pestle, arms · What happens: stand, pound, be, make, ache · To what, where: mortar, rise, woman

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. 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, mortar, rise, pestle), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 mortar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mortar	det
9	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
10	pounding	pound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mortar	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rise	det
12	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pounding	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 serve	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 serve	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 serve	mark
16	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rise	acl:relcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 serve	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 week	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 serve	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 pestle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pestle	det
23	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 serve	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pestle	acl:relcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	obj
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ache	nsubj
28	ache	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 weight	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 weight	nmod:poss
31	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ache	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the old woman		the mortar		meanwhile property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mortar=Location
2	pound	gerund	the mortar not said here	the rise				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Product
3	is	past	the rise	the rise not said here		week	with a pestle; serve property	tree rules
4	make	past	a pestle	woman				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
5	ache	present	arms				with pestle's weight	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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