The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 104
Well, just as I turned into the outside cave, who should I see watching near the door but poor Molly.
Who acts: I, outside cave · What happens: turn, see, watch · To what, where: outside cave, door
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, outside cave), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 turned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 turned | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cave | amod |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cave | acl:relcl |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 see | xcomp |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watching | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 Molly | cc |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Molly | amod |
| 22 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 door | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | I | the outside cave | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cave=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | should | the outside cave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the outside cave not said here | the door but poor Molly | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=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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