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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 54

At length, when the girl found she was no nearer to discovering the secret, she resolved to ask him, and in the evening when she caught sight of him coming through the wood she came down from the tree and begged him to tell her his name.

Who acts: girl, maiden · What happens: find, be, discover, resolve, ask, catch · To what, where: length, secret, maiden, sight, wood, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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, maiden), 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

caseoblpunctadvmoddetnsubjnsubjcopdetccompmarkadvcldetobjpunctnsubjconjmarkxcompobjpunctcccasedetobl:unmarkedmarknsubjadvclobjcasenmodxcompcasedetoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetoblccconjobjmarkxcompiobjnmod:possobjpunctrootAtADPlengthNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETgirlNOUNfoundVERBshePRONwasAUXnoDETnearerADJtoSCONJdiscoveringVERBtheDETsecretNOUN,PUNCTshePRONresolvedVERBtoPARTaskVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJinADPtheDETeveningNOUNwhenSCONJshePRONcaughtVERBsightNOUNofADPhimPRONcomingVERBthroughADPtheDETwoodNOUNshePRONcameVERBdownADVfromADPtheDETtreeNOUNandCCONJbeggedVERBhimPRONtoPARTtellVERBherPRONhisPRONnameNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lengthcase
2lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing7 foundobl
3,,PUNCT_2 lengthpunct
4whenwhenADVPronType=Int7 foundadvmod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 girldet
6girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing7 foundnsubj
7foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 nearernsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 nearercop
10nonoDETPronType=Neg11 nearerdet
11nearernearADJDegree=Cmp7 foundccomp
12totoSCONJ_13 discoveringmark
13discoveringdiscoverVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 neareradvcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 secretdet
15secretsecretNOUNNumber=Sing13 discoveringobj
16,,PUNCT_18 resolvedpunct
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 resolvednsubj
18resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 foundconj
19totoPART_20 askmark
20askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf18 resolvedxcomp
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 askobj
22,,PUNCT_26 eveningpunct
23andandCCONJ_26 eveningcc
24ininADP_26 eveningcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 eveningdet
26eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing18 resolvedobl:unmarked
27whenwhenSCONJ_29 caughtmark
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 caughtnsubj
29caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 resolvedadvcl
30sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing29 caughtobj
31ofofADP_32 himcase
32himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 sightnmod
33comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger29 caughtxcomp
34throughthroughADP_36 woodcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 wooddet
36woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing33 comingobl
37sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 camensubj
38camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 woodacl:relcl
39downdownADV_38 cameadvmod
40fromfromADP_42 treecase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 treedet
42treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing38 cameobl
43andandCCONJ_44 beggedcc
44beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 foundconj
45himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 beggedobj
46totoPART_47 tellmark
47telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf44 beggedxcomp
48hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs47 telliobj
49hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs50 namenmod:poss
50namenameNOUNNumber=Sing47 tellobj
51..PUNCT_7 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastthe girllengthvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2ispastgirlnear propertytree rules
3discovergerundgirl not said herethe secretvn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic
4resolvepastgirleveningtree rules
5ask speech: askto-infinitivegirl not said heremaidenvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6catchpastgirlsight of maidentree rules
7comegerundgirl not said herethe woodvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
8come downpastgirlthe wood not said herethe treedown propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme
9beg speech: requestpastthe girl not said heremaidenvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
10tell speech: assert not said to happento-infinitivethe girl not said heremaiden's namegirlvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Topic
11sightmaidennom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
12namemaidennom name «communication 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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