The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 10
While Jack was standing looking at the castle, a very strange-looking woman came out of the wood, and advanced towards him.
Who acts: Jack, looking woman · What happens: stand, look, come out · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, looking 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 standing | mark |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 came | advcl |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 standing | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 strange | advmod |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looking | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 strange | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 advanced | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 advanced | cc |
| 23 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | conj |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 advanced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Jack | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Jack not said here | at the castle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at castle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | come out | past | a looking woman | the wood | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wood=Result |
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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