The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 22
One day her master happened to pass through the field where she was working, and was struck by her industry and stopped to watch her.
Who acts: master, girl, industry · What happens: happen, pass, work, strike, stop, watch · To what, where: field, girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, girl, industry), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pass | mark |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happened | xcomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 working | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 working | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 working | aux |
| 14 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 field | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 struck | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 struck | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | aux:pass |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 happened | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 industry | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 industry | nmod:poss |
| 21 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stopped | cc |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 watch | mark |
| 25 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 stopped | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 watch | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | girl's master | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | girl's master not said here | the field | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through field=Location | ||||
| 3 | work | past · progressive | girl | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | strike | past · passive | girl's industry | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | past | girl's industry not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | watch | to-infinitive | girl's industry not said here | girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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