The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 140
So when the Moon stood clear and bright above the tree-tops the old woman went out.
Who acts: Moon, old woman · What happens: stand, go out · To what, where: tree tops
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, 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 stood | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Moon | det |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bright | cc |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clear | conj |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 tops | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tops | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tops | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 13 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Moon | the tree tops | clear property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above top=Location | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the old woman | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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