The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 31
Then the second girl stepped forward, and turning over the page she read:
Who acts: second girl, Princess · What happens: step forward, turn, read · To what, where: page
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second girl, Princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turning | cc |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stepped | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 read | nsubj |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 page | acl:relcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step forward | past | the second girl | then | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the second girl not said here | the page | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over page=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | read | past | Princess | the page not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic |
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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