The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 42
He dismounted and walked over the carpet into the house, and when he entered the room there stood the girl blushing like any rose.
Who acts: son, girl · What happens: dismount, walk, enter, stand, blush · To what, where: carpet, room, girl
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 carpet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carpet | det |
| 7 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entered | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 entered | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stood | advmod |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 entered | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obj |
| 22 | blushing | blush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 girl | acl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 rose | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 rose | det |
| 25 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blushing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | son | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | son not said here | the carpet | into the house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | |||
| 3 | enter | past | son | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | son not said here | the girl | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | blush | gerund | the girl not said here | like any rose | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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