The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 38

In the hut sat a very old woman, who was the Dragon’s grandmother.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: hut, grandmother

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. 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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:590): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 hut	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grandmother	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 grandmother	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grandmother	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dragon	det
13	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grandmother	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Dragon	case
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a old woman			the hut			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location
2	is a	past	a old woman	the Dragon's grandmother					tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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