The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 14
When he reached the village where the girl lived, he inquired who was the richest and who the poorest woman in it.
Who acts: son, girl · What happens: reach, live, inquire, be, woman · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, girl), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 inquired | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 village | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 richest | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 richest | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 richest | det |
| 16 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 inquired | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 woman | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 woman | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 richest | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 woman | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | son | the village | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the girl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | rich property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | woman | village | 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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