The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 206

The old woman went upstairs, and she found the mistress and master sitting on a couch of marble spread with soft cushions, and they asked her, ‘Well, old woman, what do you want?’

Who acts: old woman, woman, mistress, you · What happens: go, find, sit, spread, ask, want · To what, where: couch, old woman, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, woman, mistress, you), 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 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mistress	det
11	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 master	cc
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mistress	conj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 mistress	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 couch	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 couch	det
17	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 marble	case
19	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 couch	nmod
20	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 found	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 cushions	case
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cushions	amod
23	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spread	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
31	Well	well	INTJ	_	34 woman	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Well	punct
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 want	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 want	obj
37	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 want	aux
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 want	nsubj
39	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 woman	conj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman				upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	woman					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sit	gerund	the mistress and master not said here			a couch of marble		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location
4	spread	present	the mistress and master				with soft cushions	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	mistress	old woman	woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	want	present · do-support	you	old woman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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