The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 8
Gerda called out still louder, and there came out of the house a very old woman.
What happens: call out, come out · To what, where: Gerda
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 called | compound:prt |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 louder | advmod |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 came | expl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | Gerda | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | there | of the house a old woman; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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