English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 65

She upped and she oped it, and there was the little old thing with five skeins of flax on his arm.

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

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 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 upped	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 skeins	case
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 skeins	nummod
17	skeins	skein	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thing	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 flax	case
19	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skeins	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 arm	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arm	nmod:poss
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flax	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 upped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	up	past	knocking			tree rules
2	ope	past	knocking	window		tree rules
3	be	past	the little old thing with five skeins of flax on off's arm		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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