The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 29

The queen was about to reply, but the old woman was already limping away, and before she had gone two steps she had turned into a young girl, who moved so quickly that she seemed rather to fly than to walk.

Who acts: queen, old woman, woman, two steps · What happens: be, reply, limp away, go, turn, move · To what, where: two steps

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 (queen, old woman, woman, two steps), 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	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reply	mark
6	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 limping	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 limping	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 limping	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 limping	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 limping	advmod
14	limping	limp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 about	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 limping	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 about	parataxis
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 steps	nummod
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	aux
26	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 steps	acl:relcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 girl	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moved	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 moved	nsubj
33	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 steps	acl:relcl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 quickly	advmod
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	33 moved	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 seemed	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seemed	nsubj
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 moved	advcl
39	rather	rather	ADV	_	38 seemed	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 fly	mark
41	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 seemed	xcomp
42	than	than	SCONJ	_	44 walk	mark
43	to	to	PART	_	44 walk	mark
44	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 fly	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the queen		about property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	to-infinitive	the queen not said here			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	limp away	past · progressive	the old woman		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past · perfect	woman	two steps		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
5	turn	past · perfect	woman	two steps not said here	into a young girl result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent step=Theme into girl=Result
6	move	past	two steps		quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	seem	past	woman			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	fly	to-infinitive	woman not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	walk	to-infinitive	woman not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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