The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 48
Soon after this the large ship came in, and the wicked lady appeared before her father with a very sad face.
Who acts: large ship, wicked lady · What happens: come in, appear
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large ship, wicked lady), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ship | amod |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 sad | advmod |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the large ship | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the wicked lady | before lady's father | with a sad face | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before father=Location |
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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