More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 109
But he was surprised to find her there alive and safe, and he said: "How came you to be saved?"
Who acts: lad · What happens: be, find, say, come, save · To what, where: daughter, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 surprised | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 find | advmod |
| 9 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 find | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 safe | cc |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 alive | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 came | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 saved | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 saved | aux:pass |
| 23 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 came | advcl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lad | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | lad not said here | daughter | there | alive property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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