The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 90

The nearer she approached the more miserable it appeared, and at length she saw a little old woman sitting upon the door-step, who said grimly:

Who acts: Princess, it, little old woman, door step · What happens: approach, appear, see, sit, say · To what, where: miserable, little old woman, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, it, little old woman, door step), 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 nearer	det
2	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 approached	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miserable	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 miserable	advmod
7	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 approached	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 appeared	nsubj
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 approached	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 approached	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 woman	acl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 step	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 step	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 step	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 door	punct
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 step	acl:relcl
29	grimly	grimly	ADV	_	28 said	advmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	Princess	the miserable			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miserable=Theme
2	appear	past	it				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	Princess	a little old woman	length		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	sit	gerund	a little old woman not said here			upon the door step	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon step=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	the door step			grimly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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