More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 79
And as she lay there, gasping for breath, the black hood fell forward over her head.
Who acts: light, black hood · What happens: lie, gasp, fall · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, black hood), 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 | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 lay | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fell | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gasping | punct |
| 7 | gasping | gasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 breath | case |
| 9 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gasping | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hood | det |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hood | amod |
| 13 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 fell | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | light | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gasp | gerund | light not said here | for breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the black hood | light's head | forward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over head=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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