The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 36
Then the maiden recognised her brothers, and overjoyed she crept out from under the bed.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: recognise, overjoy, creep out · To what, where: brothers, bed
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 recognised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recognised | nsubj |
| 4 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recognised | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overjoyed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 overjoyed | cc |
| 9 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognised | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crept | nsubj |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overjoyed | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 crept | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bed | det |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crept | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the maiden | maiden's brothers | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | overjoy | past | the maiden not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | creep out | past | maiden | the bed | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory |
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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