The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 62
She might have continued for long in this fashion had not the voice of a crow directly overhead attracted her attention.
Who acts: Fairy, fashion · What happens: continue, have, attract, attend · To what, where: voice, attention
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, fashion), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | aux |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 long | case |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 continued | obl |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fashion | det |
| 9 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | advcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 voice | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crow | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crow | det |
| 16 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 19 attracted | advmod |
| 18 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 19 attracted | advmod |
| 19 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 attention | nmod:poss |
| 21 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attracted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | might · perfect | Fairy | for long | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | this fashion | the voice of a crow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | attract | past | this fashion not said here | fashion's attention | directly, overhead property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | |||
| 4 | attend | fashion | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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