English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 24

As she was buying the things she wanted, who should she see but the squinny-eyed old fellow who had taken her on the coal-black horse.

Who acts: Dame, things, eyed old fellow · What happens: buy, want, see, take · To what, where: things, Dame

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, things, eyed old fellow), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 buying	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buying	aux
4	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buying	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 things	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 see	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 things	acl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fellow	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fellow	det
16	squinny	squinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyed	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 squinny	punct
18	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellow	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellow	amod
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buying	conj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 taken	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 taken	aux
23	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fellow	acl:relcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 taken	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	30 horse	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
27	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 black	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 coal	punct
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 horse	amod
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taken	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	buy	past · progressive	Dame	the things		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	want	past	Dame	the things not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
3	see	should	the things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	take	past · perfect	the eyed old fellow	Dame	on the black horse	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination

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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