The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 57

‘Sit down,’ said the old woman pleasantly, and she pushed Jem into a corner of a sofa and put a table close in front of him.

Who acts: you, old woman, woman · What happens: sit down, say, push, put · To what, where: Jem, corner, table · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, old woman, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Sit	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pushed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pushed	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pushed	nsubj
14	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	conj
15	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 pushed	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 corner	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 corner	det
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sofa	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sofa	det
21	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 corner	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
26	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 put	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 front	case
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 front	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			pleasantly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	push	past	woman	Jem	a corner of a sofa		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jem=Theme into corner=Destination
4	put	infinitive	you not said here	a table		close property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent table=Goal

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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