The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 77

As he wandered up and down on the banks of the mill-pond he heard a rustling in the water, and when he looked near he saw a white woman rising up from the waves.

Who acts: miller, white woman · What happens: wander, hear, look, see, rise up · To what, where: banks, rustling, water, white woman, waves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, white woman), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 wandered	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 down	cc
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 up	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 banks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 banks	det
9	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wandered	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 pond	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pond	det
12	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pond	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 mill	punct
14	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 banks	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pond	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rustling	det
18	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rustling	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looked	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 looked	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 saw	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 looked	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obj
33	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 woman	acl
34	up	up	ADV	_	33 rising	advmod
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 waves	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 waves	det
37	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rising	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wander	past	miller		the banks of the mill pond	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Trajectory
2	hear	past	miller	a rustling	the water	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus
3	look	past	miller			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	miller	a white woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	rise up	gerund	a white woman not said here		the waves	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wave=Initial_Location

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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