English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 1

A woman was sitting at her reel one night; And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company.

Who acts: woman · What happens: sit, reel, wish

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 reel	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reel	nmod:poss
7	reel	reel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sitting	xcomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 night	nummod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reel	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reeled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reeled	cc
17	still	still	ADV	_	19 reeled	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reeled	nsubj
19	reeled	reel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wished	cc
22	still	still	ADV	_	24 wished	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wished	nsubj
24	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 company	case
26	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wished	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	a woman			tree rules
2	reel	infinitive	a woman not said here	night		vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	sit	past	woman	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reel	past	woman	still		vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	wish	past	woman	still	for company	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for company=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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