The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 77

On the first evening of these last three days, when he came home and was eating his supper, he noticed the old woman stealing into the stables.

Who acts: fox, old woman · What happens: come, eat, notice, steal · To what, where: supper, old woman, stables

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 (fox, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 days	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 evening	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 evening	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eating	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eating	aux
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eating	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 noticed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 noticed	nsubj
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	obj
26	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 woman	acl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 stables	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stables	det
29	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stealing	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	fox			evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past · progressive	fox not said here	fox's supper				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
3	notice	past	fox	the old woman				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	steal	gerund	the old woman not said here		the stables			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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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