English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 60

She upped and she oped it, and there sure enough was the little old thing sitting on the ledge.

Who acts: knocking, little old thing · What happens: up, ope, be, sit · To what, where: door, little old thing, ledge

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knocking, little old thing), 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	2 upped	nsubj
2	upped	up	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 oped	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 oped	nsubj
5	oped	ope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 upped	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 oped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sure	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sure	advmod
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 upped	conj
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 sure	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sure	ccomp
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 thing	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 ledge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ledge	det
20	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 upped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	up	past	knocking			tree rules
2	ope	past	knocking	door		tree rules
3	is a	past	knocking not said here	the little old thing		tree rules
4	sit	gerund	the little old thing not said here		the ledge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location

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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