The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 72
Then the woman saw that something evil had befallen her, and turned in her rage to her stepdaughter.
Who acts: woman · What happens: see, befall, turn, rage · To what, where: something evil, rage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 befallen | mark |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 evil | compound |
| 7 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 befallen | aux |
| 9 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 befallen | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rage | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 stepdaughter | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the woman | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect · passive | something evil | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | the woman not said here | woman's rage | to woman's stepdaughter | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in rage=Source to stepdaughter=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | rage | woman | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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