The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 52
Soon after the planks in the floor sprang up as before, and the woman came up, dressed in white, with the iron belt and chain.
Who acts: planks, woman · What happens: spring up, come up, dress · To what, where: white
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (planks, woman), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 planks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 planks | det |
| 4 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 planks | nmod |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 before | case |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 sprang | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dressed | punct |
| 19 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 came | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 white | case |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dressed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 belt | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 belt | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 belt | det |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 belt | compound |
| 26 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dressed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 chain | cc |
| 28 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 belt | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the planks in the floor | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | the woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dress | participle | the woman not said here | white | with the iron belt and chain | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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