The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 10

Suddenly the little old woman stood before him, and, tapping him on the shoulder, said, ‘So far good, my boy; but what do you mean to do now?’

Who acts: little old woman, you · What happens: stand, tap, say, mean, do · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old woman, you), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tapping	punct
12	tapping	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 said	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tapping	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shoulder	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoulder	det
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tapping	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tapping	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
21	So	so	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 boy	nmod:poss
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 good	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 mean	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 mean	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 mean	obj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 mean	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 mean	nsubj
32	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stood	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 mean	xcomp
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 do	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the little old woman		before Peter	suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	tap	gerund		Peter		on the shoulder	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the little old woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean	present · do-support	you				tree rules
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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