The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 95
So she bowed to the giant, and made her way back to the window where the giant could not see her.
Who acts: girl, giant · What happens: bow, make, not see · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, giant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 giant | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 window | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 see | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 window | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | girl | to the giant | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to giant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | girl not said here | girl | to the window; way obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | |||
| 3 | not see | could | the giant | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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 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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