The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 28

She was no sooner at the fountain than she saw coming out of the wood a lady most gloriously dressed, who came up to her, and asked to drink.

Who acts: mother, fountain, lady · What happens: be, see, come out, dress, come up, ask · To what, where: fountain, wood, lady, mother

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, fountain, lady), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sooner	det
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 was	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 fountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sooner	obl
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 saw	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fountain	acl:relcl
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 saw	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 wood	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lady	det
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wood	conj
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 gloriously	advmod
19	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	_	20 dressed	advmod
20	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lady	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lady	parataxis
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 drink	mark
31	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 asked	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be	past	mother			soon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	mother	the fountain not said here			tree rules
3	come out	gerund	the fountain not said here	the wood and a lady			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wood=Result
4	dress	participle		a lady not said here		gloriously property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come up	past	a lady		mother		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
6	ask speech: ask	past					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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