The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 129

So he went towards the fire, and there the old woman was raking sticks and leaves into the embers.

Who acts: master, old woman · What happens: go, rake, leave · To what, where: fire, sticks, embers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, old 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 raking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 raking	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 raking	expl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raking	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 raking	aux
14	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
15	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 raking	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leaves	cc
17	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 embers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 embers	det
20	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 leaves	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	master		the fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards fire=Initial_Location
2	rake	past · progressive	the old woman	sticks	there		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Initial_Location
3	leave	present	master not said here			into the embers result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ember=Result

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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