The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 2

In the cavern sat an old woman spinning.

What happens: sit, spin · To what, where: old woman, cavern

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 cavern	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cavern	det
3	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obj
8	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a old woman		the cavern			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in cavern=Location
2	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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