The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 93
When she woke up on the seventh morning she saw from her perch smoke coming up from a little town on the edge of the forest.
Who acts: sister, perch smoke · What happens: wake up, see, come up, smoke · To what, where: perch smoke, little town
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, perch smoke), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 7 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 smoke | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 smoke | nmod:poss |
| 13 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smoke | compound |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 smoke | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 town | amod |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coming | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 edge | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 edge | det |
| 23 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 town | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 edge | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | sister | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sister | sister's perch smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come up | gerund | sister's perch smoke not said here | a little town on the edge of the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | smoke | sister | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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