The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 5
She had been there for some time, when a rustle among the leaves caused her to look up, and she saw an old woman limping on her crutches towards the stream that flowed through the grounds.
Who acts: queen, rustle, old woman, stream · What happens: be, cause, look up, see, limp, flow · To what, where: queen, old woman, crutches, grounds
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 (queen, rustle, old woman, stream), 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 | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caused | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 caused | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rustle | det |
| 11 | rustle | rustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 leaves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaves | det |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rustle | nmod |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 caused | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 look | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 27 | limping | limp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 woman | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 crutches | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 crutches | nmod:poss |
| 30 | crutches | crutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 limping | obl |
| 31 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 33 stream | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stream | det |
| 33 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 limping | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 flowed | nsubj |
| 35 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stream | acl:relcl |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 grounds | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 grounds | det |
| 38 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 35 flowed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | queen | time | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | past | a rustle among the leaves | queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look up | to-infinitive | a rustle among the leaves not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | queen | a old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | limp | gerund | a old woman not said here | queen's crutches | towards the stream | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards stream=Destination | |||
| 6 | flow | past | the stream | the grounds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grounds=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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