The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 65
They came in sight of the church beyond the Jordan, and, to their great joy, beheld the hermit just arriving at the door.
Who acts: nuns, great joy · What happens: come, behold, arrive, sight, joy · To what, where: sight, hermit, door, church
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuns, great joy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 10 Jordan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Jordan | det |
| 10 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 church | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beheld | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beheld | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joy | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 joy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 joy | amod |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheld | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joy | punct |
| 19 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hermit | det |
| 21 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheld | obj |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 arriving | advmod |
| 23 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 beheld | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arriving | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nuns = nun | sight of the church beyond the Jordan | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | nuns's great joy | the hermit | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hermit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | arrive | gerund | nuns's great joy not said here | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | the church beyond the Jordan | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | joy | nuns = nun | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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