The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 86
A few weeks after this he was walking through the streets of the nearest town, when he met a poor woman crying bitterly.
Who acts: few weeks, stranger, poor woman · What happens: walk, meet, cry · To what, where: streets, poor woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few weeks, stranger, poor 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 weeks | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weeks | amod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 weeks | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walking | aux |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 streets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 streets | det |
| 11 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walking | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 14 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 town | amod |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 streets | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 met | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 met | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 met | nsubj |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 town | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obj |
| 23 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 woman | acl |
| 24 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 23 crying | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | a few weeks after this | the streets of the nearest town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | stranger | a poor woman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | a poor woman not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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