The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 123
In the evening her stepmother returned and was much amazed to find Helena sitting quietly with her work all finished before her.
Who acts: stepmother, Helena · What happens: return, be, find, sit, finish, work · To what, where: Helena
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Helena), 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 | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 amazed | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 amazed | cop |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 amazed | advmod |
| 10 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 returned | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 amazed | csubj |
| 13 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 find | xcomp |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 sitting | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 finished | advmod |
| 20 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 finished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | HELENA's stepmother | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | HELENA's stepmother not said here | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Helena | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent helena=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | Helena not said here | with HELENA's work; quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | finish | past | Helena not said here | before HELENA | all property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | work | HELENA | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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: «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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