The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 55

When she saw what a figure her Granny cut in bed, the poor little thing was much surprised.

Who acts: Ahem, Granny, poor little thing · What happens: see, cut, be · To what, where: figure, bed

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 (Ahem, Granny, poor little thing), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	advcl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 saw	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 figure	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Granny	nmod:poss
8	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 surprised	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 surprised	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 surprised	cop
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 surprised	advmod
19	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Ahem	a figure			tree rules
2	cut	past	Ahem's Granny		bed		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the poor little thing			surprised property	tree rules

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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