The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 35
He wondered very much who the beautiful girl clad in such garments could be, and he stopped and spoke to her.
Who acts: King · What happens: wonder, clad, be, stop, speak · To what, where: such garments, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 clad | advmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 clad | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clad | nsubj |
| 9 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wondered | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garments | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garments | amod |
| 12 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 be | obl |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clad | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stopped | nsubj |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wondered | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spoke | cc |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stopped | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spoke | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | King | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | clad | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | can | could | such garments | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garment=Location | |||||
| 4 | stop | past | King | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | King not said here | girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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