The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 29
Soon after sunrise next day the prince’s wife was standing on a little hill behind the house, when she saw a cloud of dust coming through the town.
Who acts: wife, cloud · What happens: stand, see, come, cloud · To what, where: little hill, cloud, town, dust
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, cloud), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 standing | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | aux |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hill | amod |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hill | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 saw | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cloud | det |
| 24 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dust | case |
| 26 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cloud | nmod |
| 27 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 cloud | acl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coming | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the prince's wife | a little hill behind the house | day | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | ||
| 2 | see | past | wife | a cloud of dust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a cloud of dust not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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