The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 22
She smiled at him and held out her arms, but as she did so there came over him the remembrance of Julia, as he had seen her a few hours earlier, and her warnings and fears for the very danger in which he now found himself.
Who acts: woman, manner, warnings · What happens: smile, hold out, do, come, see, fear · To what, where: arms, remembrance, woman, manner, danger, Julia
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, manner, warnings), 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 | 2 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smiled | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 held | cc |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 held | compound:prt |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 there | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 did | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 remembrance | det |
| 21 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Julia | case |
| 23 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 remembrance | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seen | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 came | advcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hours | det |
| 31 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hours | amod |
| 32 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 seen | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fears | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fears | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 warnings | nmod:poss |
| 37 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fears | nsubj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fears | cc |
| 39 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smiled | obl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 danger | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 danger | det |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 danger | advmod |
| 43 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fears | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 found | obl |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 found | nsubj |
| 47 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 found | advmod |
| 48 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 danger | acl:relcl |
| 49 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 48 found | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | woman | at manner | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold out | past | woman not said here | woman's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | woman | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | woman not said here | the remembrance of Julia | over manner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | manner | woman | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | fear | woman's warnings | for the danger | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | find | past | manner | manner | the danger | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 8 | remember | Julia | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | warn | woman | nom warning «communication 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 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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