Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 35

But beside him stood an old woman, with a ragged mantle over her head, leaning on a staff, the top of which was carved into the shape of a cuckoo.

What happens: stand, lean, carve · To what, where: old woman, staff, shape

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	beside	beside	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mantle	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 mantle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mantle	det
11	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mantle	amod
12	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mantle	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 leaning	punct
17	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 staff	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 staff	det
20	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaning	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 top	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 carved	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 carved	aux:pass
27	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 top	acl:relcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 shape	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shape	det
30	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carved	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cuckoo	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cuckoo	det
33	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shape	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a old woman		beside Jason; with a ragged mantle over schoolmaster's head; the top obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme beside he=Destination
2	lean	gerund		a staff		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on staff=Location
3	carve	past · passive		the shape of a cuckoo	of the top	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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