The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 10

An old woman sat in an armchair near the fire, and as the strangers entered she turned her red eyes on them.

Who acts: old woman, strangers, woman · What happens: sit, enter, turn · To what, where: armchair, red eyes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, strangers, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 armchair	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 armchair	det
7	armchair	armchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 entered	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 strangers	det
15	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 entered	nsubj
16	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	advcl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eyes	amod
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turned	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a old woman		a armchair	near the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armchair=Location
2	enter	past	the strangers				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	past	woman	woman's red eyes		on strangers = stranger	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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