The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 91

But their stern words and forbidding gestures made no impression whatever on the old woman, and she resolutely continued to climb the stairs, bent on carrying out her son’s orders.

Who acts: stern words, woman, steps, son · What happens: forbid, make, continue, climb, bend, carry out · To what, where: impression, stairs, orders

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stern words, woman, steps, son), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 words	nmod:poss
3	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gestures	cc
6	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 gestures	amod
7	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 words	conj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 impression	det
10	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 impression	appos
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 woman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whatever	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 continued	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 continued	nsubj
19	resolutely	resolutely	ADV	_	20 continued	advmod
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 climb	mark
22	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 continued	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stairs	det
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 climb	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bent	punct
26	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 continued	conj
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	28 carrying	mark
28	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 bent	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 carrying	compound:prt
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 orders	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 son	case
33	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 carrying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forbid	gerund				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	make	past	steps's stern words and forbidding gestures	no impression		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
3	continue	past	woman		resolutely property	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	climb	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the stairs		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stair=Theme
5	bend	participle	woman not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	carry out	gerund	woman not said here	woman's son's orders		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality
7	word		steps = step			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	order		woman's son			nom order «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/91/