The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 95

The old man got up, rubbed his eyes, and went to see what it was, when, to his surprise and joy, it proved to be a little girl about two years old, with a skin as pink and white as the roses above her.

Who acts: old man, bank, hermit · What happens: get up, rub, go, see, be, prove · To what, where: eyes, little girl

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, bank, hermit), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rubbed	punct
7	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rubbed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	xcomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 see	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 what	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 when	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 see	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 surprise	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 surprise	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 surprise	nmod:poss
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 joy	cc
25	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surprise	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proved	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 proved	nsubj
28	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	33 girl	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 girl	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 girl	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proved	ccomp
34	about	about	ADV	_	35 two	advmod
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 years	nummod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 old	obl:unmarked
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 skin	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 skin	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 skin	det
41	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proved	obl
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 pink	case
43	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 skin	amod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 white	cc
45	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pink	conj
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 roses	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 roses	det
48	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 proved	obl
49	above	above	ADP	_	50 her	case
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 proved	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the old man			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	rub	past	the old man not said here	hermit's eyes		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	go	past	the old man not said here		to hermit's surprise and joy	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	bank			tree rules
6	prove	past	bank		with a skin; as the roses; above girl	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as rose=Attribute
7	is a	to-infinitive	bank not said here	a little girl		tree rules
8	surprise		hermit			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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