The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 23
The bride herself peeped out of the window to see who it could be, and there stood father Peter!
Who acts: bride · What happens: peep out, see, be, stand · To what, where: window, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peeped | nsubj |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 peeped | nsubj |
| 4 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peeped | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 peeped | advcl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 be | nsubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 be | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stood | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 stood | advmod |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 peeped | conj |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obj |
| 20 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 father | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | past | the bride | the window | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the bride not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | can | could | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | the bride not said here | father | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=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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