The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 6
To his astonishment he found an old woman, who begged him to help her out of the ditch.
Who acts: Prince, old woman · What happens: find, beg, help, astonish · To what, where: old woman, Prince, woman, ditch
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 (Prince, old 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 astonishment | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 3 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 begged | nsubj |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begged | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 ditch | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ditch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ditch | det |
| 19 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Prince | a old woman | to Prince's astonishment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | a old woman | Prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | a old woman not said here | woman | the ditch | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | astonish | Prince | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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