The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 41
One day a young traveller came past the house, and seeing such a pretty girl he wished her ‘Good day.’
Who acts: young traveller, traveller · What happens: come, see, wish · To what, where: house, pretty girl, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young traveller, traveller), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 traveller | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 traveller | amod |
| 5 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 wished | csubj |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 girl | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | obj |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 day | punct |
| 21 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 day | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a young traveller | the house | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | such pretty girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | traveller | girl | day | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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