The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 157

One morning as she sat by a little brook, thinking sadly, she suddenly saw a young stranger approaching, and got up quickly, intending to avoid him.

Who acts: dog, young stranger · What happens: sit, think, see, approach, get up, intend · To what, where: young stranger, palace

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, young stranger), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 brook	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 brook	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brook	amod
9	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinking	punct
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
12	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	11 thinking	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 saw	advmod
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stranger	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stranger	amod
19	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
20	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stranger	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 got	compound:prt
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 intending	punct
27	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 got	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 avoid	mark
29	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 intending	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 avoid	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	dog		morning	by a little brook	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by brook=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	dog not said here			sadly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	dog	a young stranger		suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
4	approach	gerund	a young stranger not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get up	past	dog not said here			quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	intend	gerund	dog not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	avoid	to-infinitive	dog not said here	palace			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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