The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 49
When the Snow-daughter saw this she turned on her brother and flew at him.
Who acts: Snow daughter, wife · What happens: see, turn, fly · To what, where: this
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 (Snow daughter, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 3 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Snow | punct |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Snow daughter | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | wife | on wife's brother | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on brother=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | wife not said here | at brother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=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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