The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 3
All of a sudden he saw a girl going towards a little house, and as he drew nearer he remarked that she was both young and pretty.
Who acts: All, girl, son · What happens: see, go, draw, remark, be · To what, where: girl, little house
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, girl, son), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 girl | acl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remarked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 remarked | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 drew | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 remarked | advcl |
| 19 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 drew | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 remarked | nsubj |
| 21 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 young | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 young | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 young | cop |
| 25 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 26 young | cc:preconj |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 remarked | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pretty | cc |
| 28 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 young | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | All | a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | a girl not said here | a little house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | son | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | past | son | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | girl | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | girl not said here | 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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