The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 14
Then the sunbeam had struggled through the thick branches and caught Wildrose’s golden hair as she lay curled up in the corner, and the eagle wondered, as he looked, whether the little girl had brought him luck, and it was her magic which had killed his enemy.
Who acts: Wildrose, eagle, sunbeam, magic · What happens: struggle, catch, lie, curl up, wonder, look · To what, where: sunbeam, thick branches, golden hair, corner, little girl, magic
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Wildrose, eagle, sunbeam, magic), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 struggled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sunbeam | det |
| 3 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struggled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struggled | aux |
| 5 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 branches | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 branches | amod |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 struggled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struggled | conj |
| 12 | Wildrose | Wildrose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Wildrose | case |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 lay | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | advcl |
| 19 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lay | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 curled | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 corner | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 corner | det |
| 23 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 curled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wondered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wondered | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eagle | det |
| 27 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wondered | nsubj |
| 28 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 looked | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 looked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 looked | nsubj |
| 32 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wondered | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 brought | punct |
| 34 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 39 brought | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 girl | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 girl | amod |
| 37 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 brought | aux |
| 39 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 looked | parataxis |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 brought | obj |
| 41 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 brought | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 magic | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 magic | cc |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 magic | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 magic | cop |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 magic | nmod:poss |
| 47 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 brought | parataxis |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 killed | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 killed | aux |
| 50 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 magic | acl |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 52 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 killed | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past · perfect · passive | the sunbeam | the thick branches | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past | Wildrose's golden hair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | Wildrose | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | curl up | participle | Wildrose not said here | the corner | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past | the eagle | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | look | past | eagle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the little girl | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | sunbeam | girl's magic | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | kill | past · perfect | girl's magic | eagle's enemy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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