The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 117
The lovely Helena steps across the plank.
Who acts: lovely Helena · What happens: step · To what, where: plank
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Helena), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Helena | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Helena | amod |
| 3 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 steps | nsubj |
| 4 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 plank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plank | det |
| 7 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steps | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 steps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | present | the lovely Helena | the plank | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plank=Trajectory |
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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