The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 95

Courtesying low, the old woman stood silent before him.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: courtesy, stand

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 (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	Courtesying	courtesy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stood	advcl
2	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Courtesying	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Courtesying	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stood	xcomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	courtesy	gerund	the old woman not said here					low property	tree rules
2	stand	past	the old woman				before King	silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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