The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 102
At this sight Alonzo became suddenly grave, and kneeling by her side, gently raised her up.
Who acts: Alonzo · What happens: become, kneel, raise up · To what, where: sight, Yara
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | obl |
| 4 | Alonzo | Alonzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 grave | advmod |
| 7 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kneeling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kneeling | cc |
| 10 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 became | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kneeling | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raised | punct |
| 15 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 16 raised | advmod |
| 16 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 raised | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 raised | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Alonzo | this sight | grave property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | kneel | gerund | Alonzo not said here | by Yara's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 3 | raise up | past | Alonzo not said here | Yara | gently property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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