The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 117
He looked round, and at the door stood the maiden, holding a little bundle in her arms.
Who acts: prince · What happens: look round, stand, hold · To what, where: door, little bundle, arms
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bundle | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bundle | amod |
| 16 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holding | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 arms | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holding | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | prince | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | prince not said here | the door | maiden property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | |||
| 3 | hold | gerund | prince not said here | a little bundle | cow's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme in arm=Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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