The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 21
Now the sun set; the owl flew into a bush, and immediately an old, bent woman came out of it; she was yellow-skinned and thin, and had large red eyes and a hooked nose, which met her chin.
Who acts: owl, old bent woman, woman, hooked nose · What happens: fly, come out, be, have, hook, meet · To what, where: sun set, bush, owl, large red eyes, chin
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, old bent woman, woman, hooked nose), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 owl | det |
| 7 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bush | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bush | det |
| 11 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 18 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 skinned | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 skinned | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 skinned | cop |
| 27 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 skinned | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 yellow | punct |
| 29 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flew | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thin | cc |
| 31 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 skinned | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 had | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 had | cc |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 36 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 had | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 nose | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 nose | det |
| 40 | hooked | hook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 nose | amod |
| 41 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eyes | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 met | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 met | nsubj |
| 44 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 nose | acl:relcl |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 chin | nmod:poss |
| 46 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 met | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the owl | the sun set | into a bush result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bush=Result | |||
| 2 | come out | past | a old bent woman | owl | immediately property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past | woman | skinned property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | the owl not said here | large red eyes and a hooked nose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hook | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | meet | past | a hooked nose | woman's chin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Co-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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