The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 118
The young Turkey-maiden turned her gentle eyes upon the old woman, and answered:
Who acts: young Turkey maiden · What happens: turn, answer · To what, where: gentle eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Turkey maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 3 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 maiden | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Turkey | punct |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turned | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 answered | cc |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the young Turkey maiden | maiden's gentle eyes | upon the old woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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