The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 83

She lost no time in getting herself ready, and did not take long over her journey; and as she was passing down the chief street of the town a noble lady saw her out of the window, and, struck by her sad face, said to her: ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’

Who acts: woman, time, you · What happens: lose, get, not take, pass down, see, strike · To what, where: woman, journey, chief street, window, pretty girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, time, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 getting	mark
6	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 time	acl
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 getting	obj
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 getting	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 take	advmod
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lost	advcl
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 take	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 journey	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 journey	nmod:poss
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 passing	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passing	aux
23	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 saw	advcl
24	down	down	ADP	_	27 street	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 street	det
26	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 street	amod
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 town	det
30	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 street	nmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lady	det
32	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lady	amod
33	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saw	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 window	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 window	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 window	det
39	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 struck	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 struck	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 struck	punct
43	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 saw	conj
44	by	by	ADP	_	47 face	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 face	nmod:poss
46	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 face	amod
47	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struck	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 said	obl
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	57 going	punct
53	‘	'	PUNCT	_	57 going	punct
54	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 going	advmod
55	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 going	aux
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 going	nsubj
57	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 said	ccomp
58	all	all	ADV	_	59 alone	advmod
59	alone	alone	ADV	_	57 going	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 girl	punct
61	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 girl	nmod:poss
62	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 girl	amod
63	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 going	obl
64	?	?	PUNCT	_	57 going	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	57 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	woman				time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	gerund	no time not said here	woman				ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
3	not take	past · do-support	woman not said here			woman's journey		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pass down	past · progressive	woman	the chief street of the town					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient street=Theme
5	see	past		woman		the window			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	strike	participle						by woman's sad face	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by face=Location
7	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here		woman				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
8	go	present · progressive	you	my pretty girl				alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	journey		woman						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 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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