The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 82
They sprung from the front of each ear, and met at the back.
Who acts: baby · What happens: spring, meet · To what, where: front, back
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 (baby), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sprung | nsubj |
| 2 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 front | det |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprung | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ear | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 ear | det |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 front | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 met | cc |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprung | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 back | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | participle | baby | the front of each ear | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from front=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | baby not said here | the back | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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