The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 117
Then she rose up to receive the Serpent King.
Who acts: girl · What happens: rise up, receive · To what, where: Serpent King
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 receive | mark |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | girl | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the Serpent King | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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