The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 127
But in a few minutes she too was back again, and the witch saw that she had failed, and feared lest her power was going.
Who acts: witch, girl, power · What happens: be, fail, fear, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, girl, power), 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 | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 minutes | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minutes | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 minutes | amod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 was | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 was | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | cop |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 was | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 was | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 failed | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 failed | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 failed | aux |
| 19 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feared | cc |
| 22 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 23 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 power | nmod:poss |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 going | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 feared | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the witch | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fail | past · perfect | girl | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fear | past | the witch not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | girl's power | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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