The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 30
The helmet was pushed on one side, and as the youth stood watching from behind a tree he had a glimpse of the girl’s great beauty; and he determined that no one else should be his wife.
Who acts: youth, one · What happens: push, stand, watch, have, determine, be · To what, where: helmet, one side, tree, glimpse, wife, great beauty
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 (youth, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 helmet | det |
| 2 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | aux:pass |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 side | nummod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 stood | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | conj |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tree | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 glimpse | det |
| 22 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beauty | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 girl | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beauty | amod |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glimpse | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 determined | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 determined | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 determined | nsubj |
| 32 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 wife | mark |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wife | nsubj |
| 36 | else | else | ADV | _ | 35 one | advmod |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 wife | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wife | cop |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wife | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 determined | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past · passive | the helmet | one side | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the youth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the youth not said here | a tree | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | youth | a glimpse of the girl's great beauty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | determine | past | youth | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | should | no one | youth's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | glimpse | the girl's great beauty | nom glimpse «act 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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