The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 159

She came to the edge of a marsh, and seeing a herd of reindeer there, she began all at once to sing—

Who acts: woman · What happens: come, see, begin, sing · To what, where: edge, herd

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 edge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 edge	det
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 marsh	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 marsh	det
8	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 edge	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seeing	cc
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 herd	det
13	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seeing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 reindeer	case
15	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 herd	nmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 seeing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
20	all	all	ADV	_	19 began	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 began	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sing	mark
24	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	woman		the edge of a marsh		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
2	see	gerund	woman not said here	a herd of reindeer	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus
3	begin	past	woman			all property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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