The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 77
He bowed low to the lady and then stood quietly near the door.
Who acts: man · What happens: bow, stand · To what, where: door
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 (man), 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 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bowed | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | man | to the lady; low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to lady=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | man not said here | the door | then | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=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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