The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 47

The girl went straight to the little house in the wood, and as before the three little men were looking out of the window.

Who acts: girl, three little men · What happens: go, look out · To what, where: wood, window

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 (girl, three little men), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 house	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looking	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	21 looking	advmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 looking	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 men	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 men	nummod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looking	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looking	aux
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 window	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the girl			the wood		to the little house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	look out	past · progressive	the three little men	the window					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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