The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 17
On the third day she looked out o’ the back door, and saw a coach-and-four coming along the road.
Who acts: sister, coach · What happens: look out, see, come · To what, where: coach, road
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, coach), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 12 door | mark |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 door | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 door | amod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coach | det |
| 17 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 four | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 four | cc |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 coach | conj |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 coach | acl |
| 23 | along | along | ADP | _ | 25 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | sister | day | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sister not said here | a coach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coach=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a coach not said here | the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_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 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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