The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 99

When the knight, who was a very handsome young man, rode up, he wondered to see the marvellous tree of gold and silver, and said to the two sisters, ‘Whose is this beautiful tree?

Who acts: knight · What happens: be, ride up, wonder, see, say · To what, where: handsome young man, marvellous tree, two sisters, beautiful tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rode	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 handsome	advmod
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knight	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
13	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wondered	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 rode	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rode	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wondered	nsubj
17	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wondered	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 silver	cc
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gold	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wondered	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 sisters	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sisters	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 sisters	nummod
33	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 said	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tree	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 tree	punct
36	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 tree	nmod:poss
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 tree	cop
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 tree	det
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tree	amod
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	ccomp
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the knight	a handsome young man		tree rules
2	ride up	past	the knight			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	past	knight			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	knight not said here	the marvellous tree of gold and silver		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	knight not said here		the two sisters	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient
6	is a	present		this beautiful tree		tree rules

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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