The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 25

Before long, however, he heard the window opened above his head, looked up, and beheld the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

Who acts: Englishman, window · What happens: hear, open, look up, behold, see · To what, where: head, beautiful woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Englishman, window), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heard	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
11	above	above	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 looked	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beheld	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beheld	cc
19	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beheld	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 seen	advmod
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 woman	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Englishman			before long	however property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	open	past	the window		Englishman's head			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above head=Location
3	look up	past	Englishman not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	behold	past	Englishman not said here	the beautiful woman				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	see	past · perfect	Englishman	the beautiful woman not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus

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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