The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 108

When she saw them disappear into a large house, she thought to herself: ‘Now I know where it is; ‘and made a great cross on the door with a piece of chalk.

Who acts: Queen, Princess, I, house · What happens: see, disappear, think, know, be, make · To what, where: Princess, large house, Queen, great cross, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Princess, I, house), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappear	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 know	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	parataxis
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 is	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 is	nsubj
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	ccomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cross	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cross	amod
29	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 piece	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 piece	det
35	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 chalk	case
37	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 piece	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Queen	Princess					tree rules
2	disappear	infinitive	Princess not said here			a large house			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Queen		Queen				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	I				now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	present	house						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	Queen not said here	a great cross		the door		with a piece of chalk	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cross=Product

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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