The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 29
When she had nearly worn out the last of these there stood before her the loveliest youth in the world.
Who acts: lindorm · What happens: wear out, stand · To what, where: loveliest youth, world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lindorm), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 worn | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worn | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worn | aux |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 worn | advmod |
| 5 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 worn | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 last | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worn | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 these | case |
| 10 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 last | nmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stood | advmod |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 16 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 youth | amod |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 youth | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear out | past · perfect | lindorm | last, nearly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the loveliest youth | the world; there | before lindorm | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme before she=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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