The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 132
When they reached the bush with red berries there stood the reindeer waiting for them.
Who acts: winds, reindeer · What happens: reach, stand, wait · To what, where: bush, reindeer
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, reindeer), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bush | det |
| 5 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 berries | case |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 berries | amod |
| 8 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | obl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reached | advmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reindeer | det |
| 12 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 reindeer | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 waiting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | winds = wind | the bush | there | with red berries | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bush=Theme | ||
| 2 | stand | past | the reindeer | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reindeer=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the reindeer not said here | for winds = wind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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