The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 30

The ogress came slowly and gently along, stretching out her hands before her, so that she might not fall against anything unawares, for she had only a tiny lantern slung at her waist, which did not give much light.

Who acts: ogress · What happens: come, stretch out, not fall, sling, not give · To what, where: hands, anything unawares, tiny lantern, waist

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ogress	det
2	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gently	cc
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 slowly	conj
7	along	along	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stretching	punct
9	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stretching	compound:prt
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stretching	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stretching	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fall	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 fall	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fall	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fall	advmod
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	parataxis
22	against	against	ADP	_	24 unawares	case
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 unawares	compound
24	unawares	unaware	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fall	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lantern	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	32 lantern	case
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lantern	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lantern	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	32 lantern	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lantern	det
31	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lantern	amod
32	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	parataxis
33	slung	sling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lantern	acl
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 waist	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 waist	nmod:poss
36	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slung	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 give	obj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 give	advmod
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 waist	acl:relcl
42	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 light	amod
43	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the ogress				along, slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	gerund	the ogress not said here	ogress's hands		before ogress		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	not fall	might	ogress		anything unawares			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against unaware=Location
4	sling	participle		a tiny lantern not said here	ogress's waist			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at waist=Destination
5	not give	past · do-support		ogress's waist				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient light=Theme

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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