The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 52
As for the maiden, no sooner was her deluded lover fairly out of sight than she began to prepare for flight.
Who acts: pretty · What happens: delude, be, begin, prepare · To what, where: deluded lover, sight
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty), 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 maiden | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lover | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sooner | det |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 lover | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lover | cop |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lover | nmod:poss |
| 10 | deluded | delude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lover | amod |
| 11 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 15 sight | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lover | nmod |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 began | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sight | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 prepare | mark |
| 20 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 flight | case |
| 22 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prepare | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delude | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | pretty's deluded lover | sight | as the maiden; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | past | pretty | sight not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prepare | to-infinitive | pretty not said here | for flight | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for flight=Beneficiary |
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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