The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 42

She stepped in and found a youth who, marvelling at her beauty, at the royal robes she wore, and at the golden star on her forehead, asked her where she came from and whither she was going.

Who acts: mother, youth · What happens: step in, find, marvell, wear, ask, come · To what, where: youth, royal robes, beauty, mother, golden star

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 (mother, youth), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 stepped	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 marvelling	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 marvelling	punct
10	marvelling	marvell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 youth	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 beauty	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beauty	nmod:poss
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marvelling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 robes	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 robes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 robes	det
17	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 robes	amod
18	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wore	nsubj
20	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 robes	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asked	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 star	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 star	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 star	amod
26	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 forehead	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 forehead	nmod:poss
29	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 star	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 star	punct
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 asked	iobj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 came	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 asked	advcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	35 came	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 going	cc
38	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	41 going	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 going	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 going	aux
41	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 came	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	step in	past	mother					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	mother not said here	a youth		the royal robes		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent youth=Theme at robe=Asset
3	marvell	gerund	a youth			mother's beauty		tree rules
4	wear	past	mother	the royal robes not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	mother not said here		mother	the golden star on mother's forehead		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	come	past	mother					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past · progressive	mother				whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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