The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 60
As for little Muffette, by the time she was seven her arrows seldom missed their mark.
Who acts: Muffette, arrows · What happens: be, miss, mark · To what, where: seven, mark
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muffette, arrows), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Muffette | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Muffette | amod |
| 4 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 missed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Muffette | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 missed | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seven | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seven | cop |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seven | nmod |
| 14 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 15 missed | advmod |
| 15 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mark | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 missed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Muffette | seven | Muffette's arrows nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | miss | past | arrows's mark | time | as little Muffette; seldom property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | mark | arrows = arrow | nom mark «cognition 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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