Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 6
It came tumbling past the very window where the white Queen was sitting; she rose to see what was the matter, and looked out.
Who acts: aim, white Queen, she · What happens: come, tumble, sit, rise, see, look out · To what, where: window
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aim, white Queen, she), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 came | xcomp |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 window | advmod |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tumbling | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Queen | amod |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 window | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rose | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 looked | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | aim | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tumble | gerund | aim not said here | the window | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past window=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | the white Queen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | look out | past | aim not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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