The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 94
She turned round, and--was it her fancy? or did the fire burn more dimly than before?
Who acts: hand, light, fire · What happens: turn round, be, do, burn · To what, where: fancy
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, light, fire), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fancy | cc |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 and | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fancy | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fancy | nsubj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 did | cc |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | nsubj |
| 16 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | acl:relcl |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 dimly | advmod |
| 18 | dimly | dimly | ADV | _ | 16 burn | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 before | fixed |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 dimly | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | hand | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | light | hand's fancy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | hand not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | burn | present | the fire | dimly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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