The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 74
Thereupon the little old woman suddenly stood up straight, and grew tall, and young, and beautiful, and said with a smile to the astonished Fiordelisa:
Who acts: little old woman · What happens: stand up, grow, say · To what, where: astonished Fiordelisa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (little old 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stood | compound:prt |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 young | cc |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 young | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 smile | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 smile | det |
| 25 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Fiordelisa | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Fiordelisa | det |
| 28 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Fiordelisa | amod |
| 29 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the little old woman | straight, suddenly, thereupon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the little old woman not said here | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little old woman not said here | the astonished Fiordelisa | with a smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fiordelisa=Recipient |
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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