The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 104

However, she said nothing to her sisters, but as she met the boy by accident while she was walking under the shade of the elms, she suddenly stopped as if to speak to him; then, altering her mind, went on her way.

Who acts: Lina · What happens: say, meet, walk, stop, speak, alter · To what, where: nothing, sisters, boy, shade, mind, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sisters	nmod:poss
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nothing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 met	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 met	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 met	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
13	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 accident	case
17	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obl
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 walking	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 walking	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 walking	aux
21	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 met	advcl
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 shade	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shade	det
24	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walking	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 elms	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 elms	det
27	elms	elm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shade	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stopped	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stopped	nsubj
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 stopped	advmod
31	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 speak	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 speak	mark
34	to	to	PART	_	35 speak	mark
35	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stopped	xcomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 speak	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 altering	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 altering	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 altering	punct
41	altering	alter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mind	nmod:poss
43	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 altering	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 way	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 way	nmod:poss
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lina	nothing	Lina's sisters			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to sister=Recipient
2	meet	past	Lina	the boy				by accident	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent
3	walk	past · progressive	Lina			the shade of the elms			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Trajectory
4	stop	past	Lina					suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lina not said here		boy				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
6	alter	gerund	Lina not said here	Lina's mind			then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	go	past	Lina not said here			Lina's way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
8	shade			the elms					nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient
9	mind		Lina						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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