The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 41

So she did her mother’s bidding, and, standing one day by the window, she looked away into the far distance as if she were very sad.

Who acts: witch, mother · What happens: do, stand, look away, be, bid · To what, where: bidding

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bidding	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 mother	case
7	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 standing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 standing	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 standing	punct
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl:unmarked
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 looked	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 distance	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 distance	det
23	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distance	amod
24	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 sad	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 sad	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sad	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sad	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 sad	advmod
30	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 looked	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	witch	witch's mother's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
2	stand	gerund	witch not said here		day	by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
3	look away	past	witch			into the far distance; away property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into distance=Theme
4	is	past	witch			sad property	tree rules
5	bid		witch's mother				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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