The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 58
Without seeming to notice anything, she went to the spring, looked up to the full moon, then knelt down and bathed her face nine times, then looked up to the moon again and walked nine times round the well, and as she walked she sang this song:
Who acts: woman · What happens: seem, notice, go, look up, kneel down, bath · To what, where: anything, face, well, song
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeming | mark |
| 2 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 notice | mark |
| 4 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seeming | xcomp |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 notice | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeming | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spring | det |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 looked | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moon | amod |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knelt | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 knelt | advmod |
| 21 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 knelt | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bathed | cc |
| 24 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 knelt | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bathed | obj |
| 27 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 times | nummod |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bathed | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 looked | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 looked | advmod |
| 31 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 looked | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 moon | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moon | det |
| 35 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 looked | obl |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 looked | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 walked | cc |
| 38 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 looked | conj |
| 39 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 times | nummod |
| 40 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | round | round | ADP | _ | 43 well | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 well | det |
| 43 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 walked | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 walked | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 walked | cc |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 walked | mark |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 walked | nsubj |
| 48 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 sang | nsubj |
| 50 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 walked | conj |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 song | det |
| 52 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sang | obj |
| 53 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | gerund | woman not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive | woman not said here | anything | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | woman | spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look up | past | woman not said here | to the full moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to moon=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kneel down | past | woman not said here | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | bath | past | woman not said here | woman's face | time | tree rules | |||
| 7 | look up | past | then; again | to the moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to moon=Theme | ||||
| 8 | walk | past | the well | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round well=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | walk | past | woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | sing speech: express | past | woman | this song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
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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