The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 17
Inside the carriage sat a beautiful girl in a black dress crying bitterly.
Who acts: black dress · What happens: sit, cry · To what, where: beautiful girl, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black dress), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 carriage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dress | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dress | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dress | amod |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 12 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 dress | acl |
| 13 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 12 crying | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a beautiful girl | the carriage | in a black dress | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme inside carriage=Location | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | a black dress not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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