The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 85
And when they had disappeared the deer came off the roof, to where the dead man lay, and she shook her head over him, and wax fell from her ear, and he jumped up as well as ever.
Who acts: food, deer, dead man, four, wax · What happens: disappear, come off, lay, shake, fall, jump up · To what, where: roof, head, ear
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 (food, deer, dead man, four), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 disappeared | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 disappeared | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | aux |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | advcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 13 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 lay | mark |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lay | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shook | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shook | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shook | nsubj |
| 22 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lay | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shook | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 29 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 ear | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 ear | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 jumped | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 jumped | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 jumped | nsubj |
| 37 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fell | conj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 jumped | compound:prt |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 37 jumped | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 as | fixed |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 as | fixed |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 as | fixed |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect | food | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come off | past | the deer | the roof | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | to-infinitive | the dead man | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shake | past | four | four's head | over son | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme over he=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | fall | past | wax | four's ear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ear=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | jump up | past | wax | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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