The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 69

So the poor girl found herself left all alone in the wood, and as she looked round her she noticed an old woman standing close beside her, who said:

Who acts: poor girl, girl, old woman · What happens: find, leave, look, notice, stand, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor girl, girl, old woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	ccomp
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 alone	advmod
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 alone	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 noticed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 noticed	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 looked	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 noticed	advcl
18	round	round	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 noticed	nsubj
21	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
25	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 woman	acl
26	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 standing	advmod
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 standing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 noticed	ccomp
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	find	past	the poor girl		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave	past	girl	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	girl	round garden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round she=Theme
4	notice	past	girl		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	stand	gerund	a old woman not said here	beside girl; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
6	say speech: assert	past	a old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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