The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 8

She could not have been a good, honest old woman; for, first, she looked in at the window, and then she peeped in at the keyhole; and, seeing nobody in the house, she lifted the latch.

Who acts: woman · What happens: not be, look in, peep in, see, lift · To what, where: good honest old woman, window, nobody, house, latch

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 woman	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 woman	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 woman	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 woman	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct
9	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 first	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 for	punct
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	18 looked	compound:prt
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 peeped	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 peeped	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 peeped	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 peeped	nsubj
27	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 peeped	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 keyhole	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 keyhole	det
31	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 peeped	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 lifted	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lifted	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seeing	punct
35	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 lifted	advcl
36	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 seeing	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 house	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 house	det
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seeing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seeing	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lifted	nsubj
42	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 peeped	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 latch	det
44	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lifted	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	could · perfect	woman	a good honest old woman				tree rules
2	look in	past	woman		the window			vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for first=Theme at window=Location
3	peep in	past	woman			then	at the keyhole	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at keyhole=Theme
4	see	gerund	woman not said here	nobody	the house			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
5	lift	past	woman	the latch				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=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 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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