The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 48
And suddenly she saw before her a gate which she had not noticed before, and a very old woman leaning against it.
Who acts: sun, old woman · What happens: see, not notice, lean · To what, where: gate
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, old woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 noticed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 noticed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 noticed | advmod |
| 13 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gate | acl:relcl |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 noticed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 woman | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 woman | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 old | advmod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 21 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 woman | acl |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leaning | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | sun | a gate | before cow | a old woman obl; suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gate=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | not notice | past · perfect · passive | a gate | before property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | a old woman not said here | gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against it=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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