The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 45

Iwanich opened the door, and found himself in a smoke-begrimed kitchen, in the presence of a hideous old woman who was warming her skinny hands at a fire.

Who acts: Iwanich, hideous old woman · What happens: open, find, begrime, warm · To what, where: door, Iwanich, begrimed kitchen, skinny hands, fire

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich, hideous 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	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 found	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begrimed	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 smoke	punct
13	begrimed	begrime	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 kitchen	amod
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 presence	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 presence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 presence	det
18	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 woman	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
21	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 presence	nmod
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 warming	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 warming	aux
26	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 woman	acl:relcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
28	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hands	amod
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 warming	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 fire	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fire	det
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 warming	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	Iwanich	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	find	past	Iwanich not said here	Iwanich	a begrimed kitchen	in the presence of a hideous old woman	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	begrime	participle					tree rules
4	warm	past · progressive	a hideous old woman	woman's skinny hands	a fire		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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