The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 31
When at last he ventured to peep, Wildrose, with her golden hair flowing round her, was looking at him.
Who acts: prince, golden hair · What happens: venture, peep, flow, look · To what, where: last, Wildrose
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, golden hair), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ventured | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ventured | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ventured | nsubj |
| 5 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 peep | mark |
| 7 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ventured | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wildrose | punct |
| 9 | Wildrose | Wildrose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 peep | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hair | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hair | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ventured | obl |
| 15 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hair | acl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flowing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looking | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looking | aux |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ventured | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | past | prince | last | with Wildrose's golden hair | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | peep | to-infinitive | prince not said here | Wildrose | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wildrose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | Wildrose's golden hair not said here | round Wildrose | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | prince not said here | at prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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: «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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