The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 127
One day, when he was standing thus behind a tree, he saw the old Witch approach and heard her call out:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: stand, see, hear, call out · To what, where: tree, old Witch approach
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 standing | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 standing | advmod |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 approach | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 approach | amod |
| 17 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 approach | compound |
| 18 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 call | nmod:poss |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 heard | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 call | compound:prt |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Prince | a tree | day | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location | ||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | the old Witch approach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Prince not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | infinitive | Prince not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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