The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 108
No one saw this but her waiting-woman, who threw it out of the window into the forest beside the castle.
Who acts: one, waiting woman · What happens: see, throw · To what, where: this, birth, window
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, waiting woman), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 woman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | no one | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | woman's waiting woman | birth | the window | into the forest; beside the castle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme out window=Initial_Location into forest=Destination |
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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