The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 36
In the middle of a field they met the parson, and when he saw this procession he cried: ‘For shame, you bold girls!
Who acts: goose, parson · What happens: meet, see, cry · To what, where: parson, middle, procession
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose, parson), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parson | det |
| 10 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 met | conj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 procession | det |
| 17 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 procession | acl:relcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 girls | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 bold | punct |
| 22 | For | for | ADP | _ | 23 shame | case |
| 23 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bold | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shame | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 bold | nsubj |
| 26 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 girls | amod |
| 27 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 met | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | goose | the parson | the middle of a field | bold girls obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parson=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | see | past | parson | this procession | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | parson | this procession not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent procession=Topic |
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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