The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 19
But the instant it touched her mouth a cold shiver ran through her.
Who acts: instant, cold shiver · What happens: touch, run · To what, where: mouth
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant, cold shiver), 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 touched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shiver | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shiver | amod |
| 10 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the instant | power's mouth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | a cold shiver | through power | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through she=Trajectory |
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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