The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 95

Then they recognized his voice and stood still, and when the bear was quite close to them his skin suddenly fell off, and a beautiful man stood beside them, all dressed in gold.

Who acts: girls, bear, skin, beautiful man · What happens: recognize, stand, be, fall off, dress · To what, where: voice, girls, all, gold

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, bear, skin, beautiful man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 recognized	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recognized	nsubj
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognized	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stood	cc
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 stood	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 close	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 close	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 close	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 close	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 close	advmod
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 close	obl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 fell	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stood	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stood	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	nsubj
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
30	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stood	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dressed	punct
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 dressed	nsubj:pass
34	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 stood	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 gold	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dressed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	girls = girl	young's voice			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	stand	past	girls = girl not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the bear		girls = girl			close property	tree rules
4	fall off	past	young's skin					suddenly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	stand	past	a beautiful man					beside girls = girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location
6	dress	participle · passive		all		gold			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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