The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 47
As they ended, I looked up and saw a tall and stately dame advancing towards me, surrounded and followed by a vast flock of every kind of bird.
Who acts: bells, I, tall dame · What happens: end, look up, see, advance, surround, follow · To what, where: tall dame
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (bells, I, tall dame), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 ended | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dame | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dame | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stately | cc |
| 13 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tall | conj |
| 14 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 15 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 dame | acl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 advancing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 surrounded | punct |
| 19 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dame | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 followed | cc |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 surrounded | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 flock | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 flock | det |
| 24 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flock | amod |
| 25 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 kind | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 kind | det |
| 28 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flock | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 bird | case |
| 30 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kind | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | bells = bell | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look up | past | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I not said here | a tall dame | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dame=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | advance | gerund | a tall dame not said here | towards me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | surround | participle | a tall dame not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | follow | participle | by a vast flock of every kind of bird | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by flock=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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