The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 59
Why, the golden-haired girl standing before him.
Who acts: golden haired girl · What happens: stand
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden haired girl), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 golden | punct |
| 6 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 girl | acl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 standing | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the golden haired girl not said here | before Peter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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