The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 17
Turning round, he saw the girl in red walking towards him, who addressed him in these words:
Who acts: sun · What happens: turn round, see, walk, address · To what, where: girl, sun, words
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Turning | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 walking | mark |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 walking | amod |
| 10 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 addressed | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 addressed | nsubj |
| 15 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 addressed | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 addressed | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | gerund | sun not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sun | the girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | sun not said here | towards sun | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | address | past | sun | this words | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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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