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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 98

The Shifty Lad felt nothing, but as he approached the king’s daughter to ask her to be his partner he caught sight of the black dot in a silver mirror.

Who acts: Shifty Lad, Lad · What happens: feel, approach, ask, be, catch, sight · To what, where: nothing, daughter, thief, partner, sight, black dot

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 (Shifty Lad, 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

detamodnsubjobjpunctccmarknsubjconjdetnmod:posscaseobjmarkadvcliobjmarkcopnmod:possxcompnsubjacl:relclobjcasedetamodnmodcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootTheDETShiftyADJLadPROPNfeltVERBnothingPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJasSCONJhePRONapproachedVERBtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTdaughterNOUNtoPARTaskVERBherPRONtoPARTbeAUXhisPRONpartnerNOUNhePRONcaughtVERBsightNOUNofADPtheDETblackADJdotNOUNinADPaDETsilverNOUNmirrorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Laddet
2ShiftyshiftyADJDegree=Pos3 Ladamod
3LadLadPROPNNumber=Sing4 feltnsubj
4feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg4 feltobj
6,,PUNCT_10 approachedpunct
7butbutCCONJ_10 approachedcc
8asasSCONJ_10 approachedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 approachednsubj
10approachedapproachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 feltconj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 kingdet
12kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing14 daughternmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 kingcase
14daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing10 approachedobj
15totoPART_16 askmark
16askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf10 approachedadvcl
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 askiobj
18totoPART_21 partnermark
19bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf21 partnercop
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 partnernmod:poss
21partnerpartnerNOUNNumber=Sing16 askxcomp
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 caughtnsubj
23caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 partneracl:relcl
24sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing23 caughtobj
25ofofADP_28 dotcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 dotdet
27blackblackADJDegree=Pos28 dotamod
28dotdotNOUNNumber=Sing24 sightnmod
29ininADP_32 mirrorcase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 mirrordet
31silversilverNOUNNumber=Sing32 mirrorcompound
32mirrormirrorNOUNNumber=Sing28 dotnmod
33..PUNCT_4 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feelpastthe Shifty Ladnothingvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2approachpastLadthe king's daughtervn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
3ask speech: askto-infinitiveLad not said herethiefvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4is a not said to happento-infinitiveLad not said hereLad's partnertree rules
5catchpastLadsight of the black dot in a silver mirrorvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
6sightthe black dot in a silver mirrornom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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