The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 41
And when he had got outside, he saw a large open space in front of him, and a path leading out of it.
Who acts: scorpion, path · What happens: get, see, lead · To what, where: large open space, front, path
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scorpion, path), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 space | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 space | amod |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 space | amod |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 space | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 path | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 path | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 path | det |
| 21 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | conj |
| 22 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 path | acl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leading | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | scorpion | outside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | scorpion | a large open space | front of heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | a path not said here | path | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent out it=Destination |
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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