The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 55
As soon as she saw the youth, she ran towards him and greeted him as her husband and master.
Who acts: gate · What happens: see, run, greet · To what, where: youth
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 greeted | cc |
| 14 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 greeted | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 husband | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeted | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 master | cc |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 husband | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | gate | the youth | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | gate | towards youth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | gate not said here | youth | as gate's husband and master | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as husband=Attribute |
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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