The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 19

He had seen the child start alone, and the villain was waiting to devour her; when at the same moment he perceived some wood-cutters who might observe him, and he changed his mind.

Who acts: Friend, child, villain, wood cutters · What happens: see, start, wait, devour, perceive, observe · To what, where: child, villain, wood cutters, Friend, mind

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: who acts (Friend, child, villain, wood cutters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seen	xcomp
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 start	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waiting	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 villain	det
11	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waiting	aux
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seen	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 devour	mark
15	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waiting	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 devour	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 perceived	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 perceived	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 moment	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moment	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moment	amod
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perceived	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 perceived	nsubj
24	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	parataxis
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 cutters	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cutters	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 wood	punct
28	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 perceived	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 observe	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 observe	aux
31	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cutters	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 observe	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 changed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 changed	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 changed	nsubj
36	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 perceived	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mind	nmod:poss
38	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 changed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	Friend	the child			tree rules
2	start	infinitive	the child not said here			alone property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wait	past · progressive	the villain				tree rules
4	devour	to-infinitive	the villain not said here	villain			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	perceive	past	Friend	some wood cutters	moment		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cutter=Stimulus
6	observe	might	some wood cutters	Friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
7	change	past	Friend	Friend's mind			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
8	mind		Friend				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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