The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 8
One day when he was out hunting the Count passed through a forest, and at the door of a lonely cottage he saw a beautiful girl spinning hemp.
Who acts: Count, One day, beautiful girl · What happens: hunt, pass, see, spin · To what, where: Count, forest, beautiful girl, door, hemp
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count, One day, beautiful girl), 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 | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 hunting | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hunting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunting | aux |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 was | compound:prt |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Count | det |
| 9 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hunting | obj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cottage | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cottage | det |
| 21 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cottage | amod |
| 22 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 girl | amod |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 28 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 girl | acl |
| 29 | hemp | hemp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spinning | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | Count | the Count | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | One day | a forest | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Count | a beautiful girl | the door of a lonely cottage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | spin | gerund | a beautiful girl not said here | hemp | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hemp=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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