The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 3
Before Jack and his mother had recovered from their alarm and agitation, a beautiful lady stood before them.
Who acts: Jack, beautiful lady, feet · What happens: recover, stand, alarm · To what, where: alarm
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, beautiful lady, feet), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 recovered | mark |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mother | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recovered | aux |
| 7 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 stood | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 alarm | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 alarm | nmod:poss |
| 10 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 agitation | cc |
| 12 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alarm | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 recovered | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lady | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lady | amod |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect | Jack and Jack's mother | feet's alarm and agitation | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from alarm=Source | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a beautiful lady | before feet = foot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | ||||
| 3 | alarm | feet = foot | nom alarm «feeling 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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