The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 10
His mother was sewing at her door when this magnificent stranger rode up, and, filled with surprise, she bowed low before him.
Who acts: mother, magnificent stranger, stranger · What happens: sew, ride up, fill, bow · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, magnificent stranger, stranger), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sewing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sewing | aux |
| 4 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 door | nmod:poss |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sewing | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rode | advmod |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 stranger | det |
| 10 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stranger | amod |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sewing | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rode | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rode | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 surprise | case |
| 19 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bowed | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bowed | nsubj |
| 22 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | conj |
| 23 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 bowed | advmod |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sewing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | past · progressive | camel's mother | mother's door | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ride up | past | this magnificent stranger | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fill | participle | this magnificent stranger not said here | with surprise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with surprise=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | bow | past | stranger | before camel | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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