The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 22
When she went into the stables, she suddenly saw the heavy pack-saddle of the speckled mare just over her head, and she jumped and said to herself:
Who acts: woman · What happens: go, see, speckle, jump, say · To what, where: stables, heavy pack saddle, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 stables | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stables | det |
| 6 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 jumped | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saddle | det |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saddle | amod |
| 13 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saddle | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 pack | punct |
| 15 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mare | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mare | det |
| 18 | speckled | speckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 mare | amod |
| 19 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saddle | nmod |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 head | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mare | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 jumped | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 jumped | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 jumped | nsubj |
| 27 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 jumped | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 herself | case |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | woman | the stables | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | woman | the heavy pack saddle of the speckled mare over woman's head | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | speckle | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | jump | past | woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
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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