The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 50
At last Elsa saw her crossing the grass with a box in her hand.
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: see, cross · To what, where: Elsa, last Elsa, grass
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 (Elsa), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Elsa | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Elsa | amod |
| 3 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grass | det |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crossing | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crossing | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Elsa | last Elsa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross | gerund | Elsa not said here | the grass | with a box in Elsa's hand | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
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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