The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 10

It was dawn when he woke, and he saw before him a beautiful woman seated on a grey horse, with trappings of gold, who looked as if she were preparing for the hunt.

Who acts: music, youth, trappings, woman · What happens: be, wake, see, seat, look, prepare · To what, where: dawn, beautiful woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, youth, trappings, woman), 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	3 dawn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dawn	cop
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woke	parataxis
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 woke	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 woke	nsubj
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woke	parataxis
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
16	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 woman	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 horse	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horse	det
19	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 horse	amod
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seated	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 trappings	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 trappings	case
23	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 gold	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trappings	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 trappings	parataxis
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 preparing	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 preparing	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 preparing	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 preparing	aux
33	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 looked	advcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 hunt	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hunt	det
36	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 preparing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	music	dawn			tree rules
2	wake	past	youth				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	youth	a beautiful woman	before father		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	seat	participle		a beautiful woman not said here		on a grey horse	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
5	look	past	trappings of gold				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	prepare	past · progressive	woman			for the hunt	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for hunt=Beneficiary

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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