The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 64
But one morning, while Rosimond was hunting in the forest where for the first time he had seen the Fairy, his benefactress suddenly appeared before him.
Who acts: Rosimond, benefactress · What happens: hunt, see, appear · To what, where: one morning, forest, Fairy
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 (Rosimond, benefactress), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 morning | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunting | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 hunting | mark |
| 6 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunting | aux |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 seen | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 forest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fairy | det |
| 21 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 benefactress | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 benefactress | nmod:poss |
| 24 | benefactress | benefactress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | conj |
| 25 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 26 appeared | advmod |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 benefactress | acl:relcl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 appeared | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | Rosimond | one morning not said here | the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent morning=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Rosimond | the Fairy | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | appear | past | Rosimond's benefactress not said here | before Rosimond | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before 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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