The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 27
Strolling about in the early morning, he caught sight of the girl with the odd wooden helmet on her head, and immediately he went to his mother to ask who she was, and where she came from, and why she wore that strange thing over her face.
Who acts: Hatschihime, girl · What happens: stroll, catch, go, ask, come, wear · To what, where: sight, face, 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 (Hatschihime, girl), 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 | Strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 caught | advcl |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Strolling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strolling | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 helmet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 helmet | det |
| 16 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 helmet | amod |
| 17 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 helmet | amod |
| 18 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 helmet | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 24 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 mother | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 ask | mark |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 went | advcl |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 ask | obj |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 was | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 who | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wore | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wore | cc |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 came | advmod |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 came | nsubj |
| 39 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 wore | advcl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 came | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wore | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wore | cc |
| 43 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 wore | advmod |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 wore | nsubj |
| 45 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 46 | that | that | ADP | _ | 48 thing | case |
| 47 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 thing | amod |
| 48 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wore | obl |
| 49 | over | over | ADP | _ | 51 face | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 face | nmod:poss |
| 51 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wore | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll | gerund | Hatschihime not said here | morning | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Hatschihime | sight of the girl | with the odd wooden helmet on girl's head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | Hatschihime | to Hatschihime's mother; immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Hatschihime not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | come | past | girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wear | past | girl | girl's face | that strange thing | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | sight | the girl | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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