The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 100

One morning, as he sat by the grave, he noticed a richly dressed lady close to him.

Who acts: boy · What happens: sit, notice, dress · To what, where: dressed lady

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sat	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 noticed	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 noticed	nsubj
12	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lady	det
14	richly	richly	ADV	_	15 dressed	advmod
15	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lady	amod
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noticed	obj
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 noticed	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 close	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	boy		morning	by the grave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location
2	notice	past	boy	a dressed lady		close property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
3	dress	participle				richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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