The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 9
She turned round in surprise, and then she saw the little creature, the Golden Crab.
Who acts: voice · What happens: turn round, see · To what, where: surprise, little creature
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 creature | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Crab | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Crab | det |
| 16 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Crab | amod |
| 17 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 creature | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | voice | surprise | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in surprise=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past | voice | the little creature | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=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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