The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 103
A sad look came on her face, as she saw it was no use, and at last she gave it up, and lifting his arm, wrote her name across the side--‘the daughter of the king of the town under the waves.’
Who acts: sad look, look, lad · What happens: come, see, be, give up, lift, write · To what, where: face, use, lad, last, arm, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sad look, look, lad), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 look | det |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | amod |
| 3 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 saw | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 use | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 use | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 use | det |
| 15 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gave | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 gave | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wrote | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wrote | cc |
| 26 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 wrote | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 arm | nmod:poss |
| 28 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lifting | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lifting | punct |
| 30 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wrote | obj |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 side | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 side | det |
| 35 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wrote | obl |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 daughter | punct |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 daughter | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 daughter | det |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wrote | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 king | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 daughter | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 town | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 town | det |
| 45 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 king | nmod |
| 46 | under | under | ADP | _ | 48 waves | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 waves | det |
| 48 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wrote | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a sad look | look's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | look | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | lad | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up | past | look | lad | last | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | |||
| 5 | lift | gerund | robber's arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||||
| 6 | write | past | look's name | the side | under the waves; the daughter of the king of the town obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 7 | name | look | nom name «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 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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