The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 53
She stooped down to drink, when a horrible head bobbed up on the surface.
Who acts: woman, horrible head · What happens: stoop down, drink, bob up · To what, where: surface
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 (woman, horrible head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:2553): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stooped | nsubj |
| 2 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 stooped | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 drink | mark |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stooped | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bobbed | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 bobbed | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 9 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 head | amod |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bobbed | nsubj |
| 11 | bobbed | bob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stooped | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 bobbed | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 surface | det |
| 15 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bobbed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | past | woman | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bob up | past | a horrible head | the surface | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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