The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 75
The girl was much startled when instead of the little Roe she expected she saw a man with a gold crown on his head walk in.
Who acts: girl, man · What happens: startle, expect, see, walk in · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 startled | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 startled | advmod |
| 5 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 expected | advmod |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 Roe | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Roe | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Roe | amod |
| 11 | Roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expected | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 expected | nsubj |
| 13 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | advcl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 startled | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walk | nsubj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 crown | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crown | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crown | compound |
| 21 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crown | nmod |
| 25 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 walk | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past · passive | the girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | expect | past | girl | instead the little Roe | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | walk in | infinitive | a man with a gold crown on King's head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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