The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 122
She was too late; the dawn was already breaking, and the head fell to the ground, dead and corrupt as it was before.
Who acts: girl, dawn, head, ground · What happens: be, break, fall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, dawn, head, ground), 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 | 4 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 late | advmod |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 breaking | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dawn | det |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 breaking | aux |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 breaking | advmod |
| 10 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 late | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dead | punct |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 late | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 corrupt | cc |
| 22 | corrupt | corrupt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 late | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 before | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 before | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 before | cop |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 corrupt | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past · progressive | the dawn | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the head | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | ground | before property | tree rules |
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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