The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 21

The old woman stood thinking for a little: then she drew something from the folds of her dress, and, undoing a number of wrappings, brought out a tiny basket made of birch-bark.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: stand, think, draw, undo, bring out, make · To what, where: something, folds, number, tiny basket

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. 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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stood	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 little	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thinking	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 drew	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 drew	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drew	nsubj
12	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 drew	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 folds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 folds	det
16	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drew	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dress	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dress	nmod:poss
19	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 folds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 undoing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 undoing	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 undoing	punct
23	undoing	undo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 drew	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 number	det
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 undoing	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wrappings	case
27	wrappings	wrapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 number	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
29	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 undoing	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 brought	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 basket	det
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 basket	amod
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obj
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 basket	acl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 bark	case
36	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bark	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 birch	punct
38	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the old woman					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	gerund	the old woman not said here				for a little	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	draw	past	woman	something	the folds of woman's dress	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from fold=Initial_Location
4	undo	gerund	woman not said here	a number of wrappings				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
5	bring out	participle		a tiny basket				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
6	make	participle		a tiny basket not said here			of birch bark	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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