The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 23
At one of the windows in it stood an old woman with a most beautiful maiden by her side, looking out.
What happens: stand, look out · To what, where: old woman
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 stood | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 windows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 windows | det |
| 5 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 windows | nmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 maiden | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stood | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 looking | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a old woman | at one; of the windows in castle; with a beautiful maiden; by woman's side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look out | gerund | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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