The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 25

‘The dwellers in the Tontlawald cannot be worse than my stepmother’; and looking up she saw a little black dog with a silver bell on its neck come barking towards her, followed by a maiden clad all in silk.

Who acts: dwellers, lightning · What happens: not be, look up, see, come, bark, follow · To what, where: little black dog, neck, silk

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwellers, lightning), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 worse	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwellers	det
3	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 worse	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Tontlawald	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tontlawald	det
6	Tontlawald	Tontlawald	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dwellers	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 worse	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 worse	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 worse	cop
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 stepmother	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stepmother	nmod:poss
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worse	obl
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 stepmother	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 saw	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 looking	compound:prt
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 worse	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dog	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dog	amod
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dog	amod
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 bell	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bell	det
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bell	compound
28	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dog	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	parataxis
33	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 come	xcomp
34	towards	towards	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 barking	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
37	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 come	parataxis
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 maiden	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 maiden	det
40	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 clad	obl
41	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 followed	advcl
42	all	all	ADV	_	44 silk	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 silk	case
44	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 clad	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 worse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	can	the dwellers in the Tontlawald			than my stepmother; bad property	tree rules
2	look up	gerund	lightning not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	lightning	a little black dog		with a silver bell	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
4	come	present			bell's neck		tree rules
5	bark	gerund				towards lightning	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards she=Recipient
6	follow	participle					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	clad	past		silk		by a maiden	tree rules

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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