The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 111
When he reached the last room of all, he found a beautiful girl sitting on a bed.
Who acts: sun, beautiful girl · What happens: reach, find, sit · To what, where: last room, beautiful girl, bed
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, beautiful 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 room | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 girl | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bed | det |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | sun | the last room of all | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | sun | a beautiful girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a beautiful girl not said here | a bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=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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