The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 81
But the old King stood outside at the stove chimney, and listened to her words.
Who acts: old King, heart · What happens: stand, listen, word · To what, where: stove chimney
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 chimney | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chimney | det |
| 9 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chimney | compound |
| 10 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 listened | cc |
| 13 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 listened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the old King | the stove chimney | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at chimney=Location | |||
| 2 | listen | past | to heart's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | |||||
| 3 | word | heart | nom word «communication 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 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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