The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 33
But when the morning dawned, and the girl turned into a doe, the longing for the forest came over her, and she sprang away as before.
Who acts: girl, longing · What happens: dawn, turn, come, spring away · To what, where: doe
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, longing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 dawned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dawned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dawned | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 doe | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 doe | det |
| 13 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 longing | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 longing | det |
| 16 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 longing | nmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 doe | acl:relcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sprang | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sprang | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sprang | nsubj |
| 26 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 sprang | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 before | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 sprang | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the girl | a doe | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into doe=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the longing for the forest | a doe not said here | over girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doe=Theme | |||
| 4 | spring away | past | longing | away, before property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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