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The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 16

The rich girl sat at her door dressed out in all her best clothes, and when the King’s son came near she got up, went to meet him, and made him a low curtsey.

Who acts: rich girl, son, girl · What happens: sit, dress out, come, get up, go, meet · To what, where: door, best clothes, son, low curtsey

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 (rich girl, 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

detamodnsubjcasenmod:possoblaclcompound:prtcasedet:predetnmod:possamodoblpunctccadvmoddetnmod:posscasensubjadvcladvmodnsubjparataxiscompound:prtpunctconjmarkxcompobjpunctccconjobjdetamodobjpunctrootTheDETrichADJgirlNOUNsatVERBatADPherPRONdoorNOUNdressedVERBoutADPinADPallDETherPRONbestADJclothesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTsonNOUNcameVERBnearADVshePRONgotVERBupADP,PUNCTwentVERBtoPARTmeetVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJmadeVERBhimPRONaDETlowADJcurtseyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 girldet
2richrichADJDegree=Pos3 girlamod
3girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing4 satnsubj
4satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5atatADP_7 doorcase
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 doornmod:poss
7doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing4 satobl
8dresseddressVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 dooracl
9outoutADP_8 dressedcompound:prt
10ininADP_14 clothescase
11allallDETPronType=Tot14 clothesdet:predet
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 clothesnmod:poss
13bestgoodADJDegree=Sup14 clothesamod
14clothesclothesNOUNNumber=Ptan8 dressedobl
15,,PUNCT_25 gotpunct
16andandCCONJ_25 gotcc
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int22 cameadvmod
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Kingdet
19KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing21 sonnmod:poss
20’s'sPART_19 Kingcase
21sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing22 camensubj
22camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 gotadvcl
23nearnearADV_22 cameadvmod
24sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 gotnsubj
25gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 satparataxis
26upupADP_25 gotcompound:prt
27,,PUNCT_28 wentpunct
28wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 gotconj
29totoPART_30 meetmark
30meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf28 wentxcomp
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 meetobj
32,,PUNCT_34 madepunct
33andandCCONJ_34 madecc
34mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 satconj
35himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 madeobj
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 curtseydet
37lowlowADJDegree=Pos38 curtseyamod
38curtseycurtseyNOUNNumber=Sing34 madeobj
39..PUNCT_4 satpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sitpastthe rich girlgirl's doorvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2dress outparticiplegirl's door not said heregirl's best clothesvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3comepastthe King's sonnear propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4get uppastgirlvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5gopastgirl not said herevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6meetto-infinitivegirl not said heresonvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7makepastthe rich girl not said herea low curtseysonvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary curtsey=Product

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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