The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 32
Perhaps you have caught a glimpse of their ethereal wings as they flew around your pillow.
Who acts: diamonds · What happens: catch, fly, glimpse · To what, where: you, pillow, ethereal wings
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (diamonds), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 glimpse | det |
| 6 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wings | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ethereal | ethereal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wings | amod |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glimpse | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 flew | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | advcl |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 pillow | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · perfect · passive | you | perhaps property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | diamonds = diamond | your pillow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around pillow=Location | ||||
| 3 | glimpse | diamonds's ethereal wings | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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