The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 71
But how they all stared when they saw the swineherd’s ugly daughter!
Who acts: swineherds · What happens: stare, see · To what, where: ugly daughter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swineherds), 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 | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stared | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 stared | advmod |
| 5 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swineherd | det |
| 10 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 swineherd | case |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 daughter | amod |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | swineherds = swineherd | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | swineherds = swineherd | the swineherd's ugly daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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