The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 18

She leant on a tall stick and limped and shuffled and stumbled along as if she were going to fall on her nose at any moment.

Who acts: woman · What happens: limp, shuffle, stumble, go, fall · To what, where: nose

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leant	compound
2	leant	leant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stick	amod
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leant	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 limped	cc
8	limped	limp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stick	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shuffled	cc
10	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 limped	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stumbled	cc
12	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shuffled	conj
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 stumbled	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stumbled	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fall	mark
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 nose	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nose	nmod:poss
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 moment	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	limp	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shuffle	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stumble	participle				along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past · progressive	woman				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fall	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman's nose	moment		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on nose=Location

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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