The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 61
Quite by accident he caught sight of her white skin shining through the bushes, and at the same instant she heard a twig snap under his feet.
Who acts: doe, white skin, Eglantine · What happens: catch, shine, hear, sight · To what, where: sight, bushes, twig snap, same instant, white skin
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 (doe, white skin, Eglantine), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 accident | case |
| 3 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skin | amod |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 skin | acl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 bushes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bushes | det |
| 14 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shining | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 instant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 instant | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 instant | amod |
| 20 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 snap | det |
| 24 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 snap | compound |
| 25 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 heard | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | doe | sight of Eglantine's white skin | by accident | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | Eglantine's white skin not said here | the bushes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bush=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Eglantine | a twig snap | the same instant | under doe's feet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snap=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | sight | Eglantine's white skin | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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