The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 27

When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago--all bad.’

Who acts: old hag, hag · What happens: turn, mutter · To what, where: whole basket

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 (old hag, hag), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hag	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hag	amod
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 better	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 basket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 basket	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 basket	amod
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 muttered	nsubj
12	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 basket	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stuff	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 stuff	punct
15	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stuff	amod
16	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 basket	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stuff	punct
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stuff	amod
19	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 basket	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 better	advmod
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
23	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 years	nummod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ago	obl:unmarked
25	ago	ago	ADV	_	22 better	advmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 bad	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 bad	det
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 better	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	the old hag			the whole basket and Bad stuff and bad stuff			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over basket=Trajectory
2	mutter speech: assert	past	hag	the whole basket and Bad stuff and bad stuff not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Topic

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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