The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 24

The old woman was quite frightened at seeing such an array draw up before her little house, and still more surprised when a handsome young man, whom she did not know, dismounted and kissed her hand, saying: “Now, dear mother, you shall hear my secret at last!

Who acts: array, woman, you · What happens: frighten, see, draw up, not know, dismount, kiss · To what, where: old woman, array, handsome young man, hand, secret, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (array, woman, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	8 seeing	mark
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 frightened	advcl
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 array	det:predet
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 array	det
11	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seeing	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 draw	compound:prt
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 house	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 draw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 surprised	cc
20	still	still	ADV	_	22 surprised	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 surprised	advmod
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frightened	conj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 surprised	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 when	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 know	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 know	advmod
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 man	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dismounted	punct
35	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 know	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 kissed	cc
37	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dismounted	conj
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hand	nmod:poss
39	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kissed	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 saying	punct
41	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 dismounted	advcl
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 hear	punct
43	“	"	PUNCT	_	51 hear	punct
44	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 hear	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Now	punct
46	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 mother	amod
47	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hear	dislocated
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 mother	punct
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 hear	nsubj
50	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 hear	aux
51	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 saying	ccomp
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 secret	nmod:poss
53	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hear	obj
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 last	case
55	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hear	obl
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the old woman				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	see	gerund		such array				tree rules
3	draw up	infinitive	such array not said here			before woman's little house		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	past · do-support	woman	a handsome young man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	dismount	past	woman not said here					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	kiss	past	woman not said here	woman's hand				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
7	say speech: express	gerund	woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	hear in a quote	shall	you	my secret	last	now	dear mother dislocated	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus

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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