The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 52
Lung-Woman lost no time in obeying her orders.
Who acts: Lung Woman, time, woman · What happens: lose, obey, order · To what, where: orders
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lung Woman, time, 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 | Lung | lung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Woman | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lung | punct |
| 3 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 obeying | mark |
| 8 | obeying | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 orders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 obeying | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Lung Woman | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | obey | gerund | no time not said here | woman's orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | woman | nom order «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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