English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 3
At last he found a woman, young, fair, and rich, who possessed a right arm of solid gold.
Who acts: man · What happens: find, possess · To what, where: woman, last, right arm
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 young | punct |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fair | punct |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 young | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rich | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rich | cc |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 possessed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 possessed | nsubj |
| 16 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rich | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 arm | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 arm | amod |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 possessed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 21 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gold | amod |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arm | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | man | a woman | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | possess | past | a right arm of solid gold | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arm=Theme |
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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