The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 66
For some time the doe lay quietly where she was, but, as before, she remembered that the hour of her transformation was near.
Who acts: doe, Eglantine, hour · What happens: lie, remember, be, transform
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, Eglantine, hour), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doe | det |
| 5 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 where | advmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lay | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 where | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remembered | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 remembered | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 remembered | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remembered | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remembered | nsubj |
| 18 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 near | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hour | det |
| 21 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 near | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 transformation | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 24 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hour | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 near | cop |
| 26 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 remembered | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the doe | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remember | past | Eglantine | before property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the hour of Eglantine's transformation | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | transform | Eglantine | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=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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