The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 1
As her chamberlain drew near the house, Abu Nowas caught sight of him.
Who acts: chamberlain, Abu · What happens: draw, catch, sight · To what, where: house, sight, chamberlain
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain, Abu), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 drew | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 3 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
| 9 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abu | flat |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sight | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | her chamberlain | the house | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Abu | sight of chamberlain | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | chamberlain | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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