The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 17
At a turn of the road under the trees, suddenly ‘Who goes there?’
What happens: go · To what, where: turn
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 turn | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 turn | det |
| 3 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | nmod |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 road | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 goes | advmod |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 13 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 goes | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a turn of the road under the trees; there | suddenly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at turn=Location |
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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