The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 93
No sooner were their faces touched with the sun’s rays than they were up and off.
Who acts: men, sun · What happens: be, touch, ray · To what, where: faces
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 (men, sun), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 faces | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faces | cop |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faces | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 faces | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rays | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rays | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 11 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 touched | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 up | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 up | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 up | cop |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 touched | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 off | cc |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 15 up | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 faces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | men's faces | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | participle | men's faces not said here | with the sun's rays | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | men = man | up property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon 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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