The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 99

One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them.

Who acts: woman, window, leaves, garden · What happens: stand, overlook, see, look, long, eat · To what, where: window, garden, bed, leaves

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 (woman, window, leaves, garden), 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	5 stood	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	overlooking	overlook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 window	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overlooking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 saw	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bed	amod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 rampion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rampion	det
21	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 rampion	amod
22	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 leaves	det
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 fresh	advmod
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looked	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 green	cc
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fresh	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 longed	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 longed	nsubj
33	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fresh	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 longed	xcomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eat	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the woman		the window	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	overlook	gerund	the window not said here	the garden				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
3	see	past	the woman not said here	a bed	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus
4	look	past	the leaves				fresh property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	long	past	garden					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	garden not said here	leaves = leaf				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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