The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 47
Her life was almost leaving her, when, just as the sun was setting, he turned up a lane, and went into a little house.
Who acts: life, sun · What happens: leave, set, turn up, go · To what, where: eagle, lane, little house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, sun), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaving | aux |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 leaving | advmod |
| 5 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaving | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 when | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 leaving | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 setting | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 setting | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 setting | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 setting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 setting | aux |
| 15 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 leaving | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 setting | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 turned | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lane | det |
| 21 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turned | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · progressive | eagle's life | eagle | almost property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | turn up | past | sun | a lane | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lane=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | sun not said here | a little house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location |
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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