The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 3
Midnight was striking as she reached the spot where she had met the head so many hours before.
Who acts: Midnight, woman · What happens: strike, reach, meet · To what, where: spot, head
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Midnight, woman), 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 | Midnight | Midnight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 striking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 striking | aux |
| 3 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 striking | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 met | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | aux |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 spot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hours | amod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 before | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 met | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 striking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · progressive | Midnight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | woman | the spot | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect | woman | the head | before property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Co-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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