The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 29

Now, as the girl was sitting at her distaff, weeping bitterly because she could not spin, she heard the sound of hundreds of little feet, and from every hole and corner in the hut mice came pattering along the floor, squeaking and saying:

Who acts: girl · What happens: sit, weep, not spin, hear, come, patter · To what, where: distaff, sound, hole, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sitting	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 heard	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 distaff	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 distaff	nmod:poss
10	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weeping	punct
12	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
13	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	12 weeping	advmod
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 spin	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spin	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 spin	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 spin	advmod
18	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 weeping	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sound	det
23	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 hundreds	case
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sound	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feet	amod
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hundreds	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 came	cc
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 hole	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 hole	det
33	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 came	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 corner	cc
35	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hole	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 mice	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mice	det
38	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mice	compound
39	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hole	nmod
40	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	conj
41	pattering	patter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 came	xcomp
42	along	along	ADP	_	44 floor	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 floor	det
44	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pattering	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 squeaking	punct
46	squeaking	squeak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 pattering	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 saying	cc
48	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 squeaking	conj
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the girl		girl's distaff			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distaff=Location
2	weep	gerund	the girl not said here				bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not spin	could	girl					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	girl	the sound of hundreds of little feet		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	come	past	girl not said here		every hole in the hut mice and corner			tree rules
6	patter	gerund	girl not said here		the floor			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Location
7	squeak	gerund	girl not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	gerund	girl not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

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