The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 104
She consented, and while he was stooping to tie the ribbons on his shoe she took out from her pocket another bottle, which the Wizard had given her, and put a black dot on his cheek.
Who acts: help, Lad · What happens: consent, stoop, tie, take out, give, put · To what, where: ribbons, shoe, Wizard, black dot, cheek
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stooping | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stooping | cc |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 stooping | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stooping | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stooping | aux |
| 8 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 consented | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tie | mark |
| 10 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stooping | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ribbons | det |
| 12 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tie | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shoe | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tie | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shoe | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 pocket | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tie | obl | ||
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 bottle | det |
| 23 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tie | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 given | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Wizard | det |
| 27 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 given | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 given | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 consented | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 dot | det |
| 35 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dot | amod |
| 36 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 cheek | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | help | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stoop | past · progressive | Lad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tie | to-infinitive | Lad not said here | the ribbons | Lad's shoe | from help's pocket | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent ribbon=Patient bottle=Result | ||
| 4 | take out | past | help | Lad's shoe not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Wizard | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | help not said here | a black dot | Lad's cheek | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dot=Theme on cheek=Destination |
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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