English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 57
And when she saw Childe Rowland she stood up and said:
Who acts: Burd · What happens: see, stand up, say · To what, where: Childe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burd), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | advcl |
| 5 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Childe | flat |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 stood | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Burd | Childe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer childe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand up | past | Burd | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Burd not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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