The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 11
‘Over there, at the edge of the forest in the little hut you see in the distance,’ replied the old woman.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, reply · To what, where: little hut, old woman, edge
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 2 | Over | over | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 replied | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hut | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hut | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hut | amod |
| 14 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | nmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hut | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 edge | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
| 22 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 replied | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | the little hut not said here | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the old woman | the edge of the forest in the little hut; there | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
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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