The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 61
Suddenly she raised her eyes, and saw a snake wriggling from under the bushes towards her.
Who acts: girl, snake · What happens: raise, see, wriggle · To what, where: eyes, snake, bushes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, snake), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snake | det |
| 10 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 snake | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bushes | det |
| 15 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wriggling | obl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wriggling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | girl | girl's eyes | suddenly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | girl not said here | a snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wriggle | gerund | a snake not said here | the bushes | towards girl | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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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