The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 36
Just at this moment the white doe sprang out of a thicket near by, and started back trembling when she beheld her enemy lying there.
Who acts: white doe, last, enemy · What happens: spring out, start back, tremble, behold, lie · To what, where: thicket, enemy
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 (white doe, last, enemy), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 8 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doe | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doe | amod |
| 7 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 thicket | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thicket | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thicket | det |
| 12 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 thicket | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 near | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 started | cc |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 started | advmod |
| 19 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 started | xcomp |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 beheld | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 beheld | nsubj |
| 22 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 trembling | advcl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beheld | obj |
| 25 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 enemy | acl |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 lying | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past | the white doe | a thicket | moment | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thicket=Theme | |||
| 2 | start back | past | the white doe not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | the white doe not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | behold | past | last | last's enemy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | last's enemy not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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