The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 6

One old crone had a broad iron ladle in her hand, with which every now and then she stirred the fire, but the moment she touched the glowing ashes the children rushed away, shrieking like night owls, and it was a long while before they ventured to steal back.

Who acts: One old crone, crone, moment, fire, children · What happens: have, stir, touch, glow, rush away, shriek · To what, where: broad iron ladle, hand, fire, glowing ashes, children, long while

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One old crone, crone, moment, fire), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 crone	nummod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crone	amod
3	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ladle	det
6	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ladle	amod
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ladle	compound
8	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ladle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 which	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	obj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 which	det:predet
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 stirred	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stirred	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 stirred	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stirred	nsubj
20	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 every	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stirred	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 touched	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 touched	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 touched	nsubj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touched	nsubj
28	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stirred	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ashes	det
30	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 ashes	amod
31	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 touched	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ashes	conj
34	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 children	acl
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 rushed	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shrieking	punct
37	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 touched	advcl
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 owls	case
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 owls	compound
40	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shrieking	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 while	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 while	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 while	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 while	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 while	det
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 while	amod
47	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shrieking	obl
48	before	before	SCONJ	_	50 ventured	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 ventured	nsubj
50	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 while	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 steal	mark
52	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 ventured	xcomp
53	back	back	ADV	_	52 steal	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	One old crone	a broad iron ladle	crone's hand			tree rules
2	stir	past	crone	the fire		now; then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer
3	touch	past	the moment	the glowing ashes and the children				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=Co-Theme
4	glow	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush away	participle		the children not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shriek	gerund	the moment not said here				like night owls	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	fire	a long while				tree rules
8	venture	past	children = child					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	steal back	to-infinitive	children = child not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «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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