The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 106
At length, one day, he happened to pass the nest of a huge griffin, who had left her young ones all alone.
Who acts: Paul, huge griffin · What happens: happen, pass, leave · To what, where: length, nest, young ones
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, huge griffin), 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 | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pass | mark |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happened | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nest | det |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pass | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 griffin | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 griffin | det |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 griffin | amod |
| 16 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nest | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 left | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 griffin | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ones | nmod:poss |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ones | amod |
| 23 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 left | obj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 alone | advmod |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 left | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Paul | length and one day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Paul not said here | the nest of a huge griffin | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | a huge griffin | griffin's young ones | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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