The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 143

They were silent, but the old woman peeped from behind a curtain, and saw the snake busy at the pots which she had placed ready for him in the courtyard.

Who acts: father, old woman · What happens: be, peep, see, place · To what, where: snake, courtyard

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, old 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 silent	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	cop
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 peeped	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 peeped	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peeped	nsubj
9	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 silent	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 curtain	case
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 curtain	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 curtain	det
13	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peeped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snake	det
18	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 pots	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pots	det
22	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 busy	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 placed	nsubj:pass
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 placed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 placed	aux
26	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saw	conj
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 placed	xcomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 placed	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 courtyard	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 courtyard	det
32	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 placed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	father			silent property	tree rules
2	peep	participle	the old woman			from a curtain	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from curtain=Theme
3	see	past		the snake		busy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus
4	place	past · perfect · passive			the courtyard	for Hark; ready property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in courtyard=Destination

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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