The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 82

He too saw the reflection of the woman in the tree, but looked up to discover whence it came, and there above him sat the most beautiful woman in the world.

Who acts: shoemaker, reflection · What happens: see, look up, discover, come, sit · To what, where: reflection, beautiful woman, world

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker, reflection), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reflection	det
5	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reflection	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 discover	mark
17	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 looked	xcomp
18	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 discover	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sat	advmod
24	above	above	ADP	_	26 sat	mark
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 woman	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 beautiful	advmod
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	shoemaker	the reflection of the woman in the tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reflection=Stimulus
2	look up	past	shoemaker not said here				tree rules
3	discover	to-infinitive	shoemaker not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	reflection			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past	shoemaker	the beautiful woman	the world; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in world=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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