The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 70
At this signal a maiden appeared and stood before her.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: appear, stand · To what, where: signal
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 (maiden), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 signal | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 signal | det |
| 3 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeared | conj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a maiden | this signal | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at signal=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a maiden not said here | before maiden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=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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