The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 1
One day when she was pacing to and fro under the lime trees, a black crow hopped out of a rose-bush in front of her.
Who acts: she, black crow · What happens: pace, fro, hop · To what, where: lime trees, rose bush
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, black crow), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pacing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 pacing | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pacing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pacing | aux |
| 6 | pacing | pace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pacing | fixed |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fro | cc |
| 9 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pacing | conj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 12 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trees | compound |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fro | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hopped | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crow | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crow | amod |
| 17 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hopped | nsubj |
| 18 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pacing | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 bush | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bush | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bush | det |
| 22 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bush | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 24 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hopped | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 front | case |
| 26 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bush | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 front | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pacing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pace | past · progressive | she | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | she not said here | the lime trees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hop | past | a black crow | a rose bush in front of her | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bush=Trajectory |
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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