The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 18
When he reached the poor girl’s house he did not find her at her door, for she was at work in her room.
Who acts: son, girl · What happens: reach, not find, be · To what, where: house, girl, door, room
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 find | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 find | advmod |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 door | nmod:poss |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 work | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 work | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 work | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 room | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 room | nmod:poss |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 work | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | son | the poor girl's house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · do-support | son | girl | girl's door | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at door=Asset | |||
| 3 | is | past | girl | girl's room | for work | 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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