The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 98

Just as before, a noble lady happened to see her passing her window, and called out to her, ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’

Who acts: noble lady, mistress, you · What happens: happen, see, pass, call out, go · To what, where: mistress, window

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 (noble lady, mistress, 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	Just	just	ADV	_	3 before	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 before	advmod
3	before	before	ADV	_	8 happened	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 before	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 happened	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 see	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 window	nmod:poss
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 happened	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 called	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
23	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 going	advmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 happened	conj
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 alone	advmod
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 girl	nmod:poss
31	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	parataxis
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	a noble lady			before property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	a noble lady not said here	mistress			tree rules
3	pass	gerund	mistress not said here	mistress's window			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory
4	call out speech: assert	participle	a noble lady not said here		mistress		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
5	go	present · progressive	you			alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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