The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 59
Jamila darted down like a flash of lightning, and saw that it was so.
Who acts: Jamila, lightning · What happens: dart down, see, be, flash
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jamila, lightning), 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 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 darted | nsubj |
| 2 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 darted | compound:prt |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 flash | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flash | det |
| 6 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 darted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lightning | case |
| 8 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flash | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 darted | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 so | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 so | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 saw | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart down | past | Jamila | like a flash of lightning | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | lightning | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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