English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 46
Now one day, who should she see coming up to the noble's house but the Baron and his brother and his son, her husband.
Who acts: Baron · What happens: see, come up · To what, where: Baron, house
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baron), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 see | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 coming | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 noble | det |
| 13 | noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 noble | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 Baron | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Baron | det |
| 18 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brother | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Baron | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 son | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Baron | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 husband | punct |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Baron | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | should | the Baron and baron's brother and baron's son and girl's husband | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come up | gerund | the Baron and baron's brother and baron's son and girl's husband not said here | the noble's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_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: «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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