The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 63
In a few seconds a beautiful girl in a white robe stood before him, so fair and sweet and young that no pen could describe her.
Who acts: beautiful girl, pen · What happens: stand, describe · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful girl, pen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 seconds | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seconds | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seconds | amod |
| 4 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 robe | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 robe | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robe | amod |
| 11 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nmod |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fair | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 fair | advmod |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sweet | cc |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fair | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 young | cc |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fair | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 describe | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 pen | det |
| 24 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 describe | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 describe | aux |
| 26 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 young | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 describe | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a beautiful girl in a white robe | before Prince; second | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | describe | could | no pen | girl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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