The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 109
A second time the air was filled with music, and the lady came in, stepping softly, but though she laid his head on her knee, and combed his hair with a golden comb, his eyes opened not.
Who acts: lady, eyes · What happens: fill, come in, step, lay, comb, not open · To what, where: air, head, knee, hair
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 (lady, eyes), 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 time | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | aux:pass |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 music | case |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stepping | punct |
| 17 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 17 stepping | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laid | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 laid | cc |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 laid | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laid | nsubj |
| 23 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laid | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 knee | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 knee | nmod:poss |
| 28 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laid | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 combed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 combed | cc |
| 31 | combed | comb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | parataxis |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hair | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 combed | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 comb | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 comb | det |
| 36 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 comb | amod |
| 37 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 combed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 opened | punct |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 opened | nsubj |
| 41 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 combed | conj |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 opened | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the air | time | with music | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with music=Instrument | |||
| 2 | come in | past | the lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | step | gerund | the lady not said here | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | past | lady | robber's head | lady's knee | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on knee=Destination | |||
| 5 | comb | past | robber's hair | with a golden comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not open | past | robber's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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