The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 150

Before she got it, she had to walk round me on tiptoe, turn up her eyes, and cackle like a hen; AND THAT OLD WOMAN WAS THE QUEEN.

Who acts: peasant, OLD WOMAN · What happens: get, have, walk, turn up, be · To what, where: dress, cackle, tiptoe, eyes, QUEEN

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 got	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 walk	mark
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 walk	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 tiptoe	case
13	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
15	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 walk	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 turn	compound:prt
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turn	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cackle	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cackle	cc
21	cackle	cackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 hen	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hen	det
24	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cackle	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 QUEEN	punct
26	AND	and	CCONJ	_	32 QUEEN	cc
27	THAT	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 WOMAN	det
28	OLD	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 WOMAN	amod
29	WOMAN	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 QUEEN	nsubj
30	WAS	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 QUEEN	cop
31	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 QUEEN	det
32	QUEEN	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	peasant	dress			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	have	past	peasant				tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	peasant not said here	cackle like a hen	tiptoe	round me	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round i=Trajectory
4	turn up	infinitive	peasant not said here	peasant's eyes			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
5	is a	past	that OLD WOMAN	the QUEEN			tree rules

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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