The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 102

The girl’s bright face as she stood in the front of the door with her tub attracted the lady, and she stopped and called the girl to come and speak to her.

Who acts: bright face, tub, lady · What happens: stand, attract, stop, call, come, speak · To what, where: front, lady, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright face, tub, lady), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 face	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	nsubj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stood	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 front	det
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 attracted	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tub	nmod:poss
17	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attracted	nsubj
18	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attracted	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stopped	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stopped	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 come	mark
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 called	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 speak	cc
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	the girl's bright face			the front of the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	attract	past	lady's tub	the lady			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
3	stop	past	lady				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	call	past	lady not said here		the girl		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
5	come	to-infinitive	lady not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	speak speech: other	infinitive	lady not said here		lady		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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 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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