The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 42

And as she was about to carry away the glittering water she turned round and saw the stranger, and asked him who he was.

Who acts: thing, John · What happens: be, carry away, glitter, turn round, see, ask · To what, where: glittering water, stranger, John · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, John), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 about	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 about	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	away	away	ADP	_	7 carry	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 water	acl:relcl
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 turned	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	21 asked	ccomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 who	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 who	cop
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing			about property	tree rules
2	carry away	to-infinitive	thing not said here	the glittering water			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	glitter	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn round	past	thing	the glittering water not said here		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	see	past	thing not said here	the stranger			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
6	ask speech: ask	past	thing not said here		John		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is a	past	John				tree rules

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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