The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 66

Here the old woman was bustling about, and Jem could see that she was cooking something very special for him.

Who acts: old woman, Jem · What happens: bustle, see, cook · To what, where: something

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 woman, Jem), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 bustling	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bustling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bustling	aux
6	bustling	bustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 bustling	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
10	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 see	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bustling	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 cooking	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cooking	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cooking	aux
16	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	advcl
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 cooking	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 special	advmod
19	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cooking	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 special	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bustling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bustle	past · progressive	the old woman		here	about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	Jem				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	cook	past · progressive	Jem	something		special property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient

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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