The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 14

And while he was still a long way off he saw a woman going into the house with wood on her shoulders.

Who acts: husband, woman · What happens: be, see, go · To what, where: long way, woman, house

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 way	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 way	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 saw	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 woman	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 wood	case
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 going	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	husband	a long way		still		tree rules
2	see	past	husband	a woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	go	gerund	a woman not said here		the house with wood		on woman's shoulders	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location

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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