English Fairy Tales, 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 «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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	16 looked	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	1 She	appos
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 looked	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 looked	compound:prt
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peeped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 peeped	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 peeped	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 peeped	nsubj
25	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	25 peeped	compound:prt
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 keyhole	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 keyhole	det
29	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peeped	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 lifted	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lifted	cc
32	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 lifted	advcl
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 seeing	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seeing	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seeing	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lifted	nsubj
39	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 latch	det
41	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lifted	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	could · perfect		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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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