The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 101
She was still standing in the same place when a baboon went by.
Who acts: Panther, baboon · What happens: stand, go by · To what, where: same place
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Panther, baboon), 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 | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 standing | advmod |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 went | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baboon | det |
| 11 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Panther | the same place | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | |||
| 2 | go by | past | a baboon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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