The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 74
These words gave a little comfort to the poor woman, and her heart was lighter than before as she bade him farewell.
Who acts: words, heart, woman · What happens: give, be, bade · To what, where: little comfort, widow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, heart, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 comfort | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 comfort | amod |
| 6 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lighter | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lighter | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lighter | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lighter | cop |
| 16 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gave | iobj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 lighter | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 bade | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bade | nsubj |
| 21 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lighter | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bade | obj |
| 23 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 21 bade | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | this words | a little comfort | to the poor woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent light=Recipient comfort=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | woman's heart | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | woman | widow | farewell property | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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