The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 44

One evening, after she had lit a candle and was holding the child, several planks sprang up in the floor of the room, and out at the opening came a beautiful woman dressed in white, with an iron belt round her waist, to which was fastened an iron chain that went down into the ground.

Who acts: Queen, several planks, beautiful woman, iron chain · What happens: lit, hold, spring up, come, dress, fasten · To what, where: candle, child, floor, opening, beautiful woman, white

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, several planks, beautiful woman, iron chain), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lit	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 lit	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lit	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lit	aux
7	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 evening	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 candle	det
9	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lit	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 holding	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 holding	aux
12	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lit	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holding	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 planks	amod
17	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sprang	nsubj
18	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 sprang	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 floor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 floor	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
28	out	out	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 opening	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 opening	det
31	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sprang	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 woman	det
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 woman	amod
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
36	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 woman	acl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 white	case
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dressed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 belt	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 belt	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 belt	det
42	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 belt	compound
43	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
44	round	round	ADP	_	46 waist	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 waist	nmod:poss
46	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 belt	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fastened	punct
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 which	case
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 fastened	obl
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 fastened	aux:pass
51	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 came	parataxis
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 chain	det
53	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 chain	compound
54	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fastened	obj
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 went	nsubj
56	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 chain	acl:relcl
57	down	down	ADV	_	56 went	advmod
58	into	into	ADP	_	60 ground	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 ground	det
60	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 went	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · perfect	Queen	a candle				tree rules
2	hold	past · progressive	Queen not said here	the child				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	spring up	past	several planks		the floor of the room	evening		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in floor=Location
4	come	past	a beautiful woman		the opening		with a iron belt round Queen's waist; out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at opening=Location
5	dress	participle		a beautiful woman not said here	white			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fasten	past · passive		a iron chain				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: chain=Patient to which=Co-Patient
7	go down	past	a iron chain		the ground		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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