The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 27
When she came to the wood she saw a little house, and out of it peeped three little dwarfs.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: come, see, peep · To what, where: wood, little house, three little dwarfs, house
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 peeped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peeped | cc |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 peeped | obl |
| 17 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 dwarfs | nummod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dwarfs | amod |
| 20 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 peeped | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | stepmother | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | stepmother | a little house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | peep | past | stepmother not said here | three little dwarfs | house | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme |
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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