The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 22
She went straight to the place from which the noise came, and, to her great surprise, beheld the same lion stretched on the ground with a deep wound across his face.
Who acts: girl, noise, great surprise · What happens: go, come, behold, stretch, surprise · To what, where: place, same lion, ground
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, noise, great surprise), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 place | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beheld | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beheld | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprise | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 surprise | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 surprise | amod |
| 18 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beheld | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprise | punct |
| 20 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lion | amod |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beheld | obj |
| 24 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 lion | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretched | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 wound | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 wound | det |
| 30 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wound | amod |
| 31 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretched | obl |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 34 face | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 face | nmod:poss |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wound | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | girl | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the noise | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | girl's great surprise | the same lion | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stretch | participle | the same lion not said here | the ground | with a deep wound across surprise's face | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wound=Instrument | |||
| 5 | surprise | girl | nom surprise «feeling 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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