The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 5

No one was about, so she ventured to peep in, and her surprise was increased at seeing, heaped up in one corner, a quantity of food of all sorts, while a little robin redbreast stood perched on a beam looking down upon her.

Who acts: one, girl · What happens: be, venture, peep, increase, see, heap up · To what, where: surprise, one corner, little robin redbreast, beam

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, girl), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	8 ventured	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ventured	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 ventured	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ventured	nsubj
8	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 peep	mark
10	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ventured	xcomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 peep	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 increased	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 increased	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 surprise	nmod:poss
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 increased	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 increased	aux:pass
17	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ventured	parataxis
18	at	at	SCONJ	_	19 seeing	mark
19	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 increased	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heaped	punct
21	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 seeing	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 heaped	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 corner	nummod
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heaped	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 quantity	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 quantity	det
28	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corner	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 food	case
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quantity	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sorts	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 sorts	det
33	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 food	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 perched	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 perched	mark
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 redbreast	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 redbreast	amod
38	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 redbreast	compound
39	redbreast	redbreast	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 perched	nsubj:pass
40	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 perched	aux:pass
41	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 increased	conj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 beam	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 beam	det
44	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 perched	obl
45	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 perched	advcl
46	down	down	ADV	_	45 looking	advmod
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 looking	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	no one			about property	tree rules
2	venture	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	peep	to-infinitive	girl not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	increase	past · passive		girl's surprise			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	see	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	heap up	participle			one corner and a quantity of food of all sorts		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination
7	perch	past · passive		a little robin redbreast	a beam		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on beam=Destination
8	look down	gerund				upon girl; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme
9	surprise		girl				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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