The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 140
Suddenly, on turning a corner, she stopped in surprise, for before her lay a man fast asleep!
Who acts: princess · What happens: turn, stop, lie · To what, where: corner, surprise, man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 turning | mark |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turning | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 surprise | case |
| 11 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 lay | advmod |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lay | xcomp |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | princess not said here | a corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | princess | surprise | suddenly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surprise=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | past | princess | a man | asleep, fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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