The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 12
And as soon as she reached the tree it bowed itself to the earth before her, and she stretched out her hand and picked some of its leaves and flowers and gave them to the king.
Who acts: seven, tree · What happens: reach, bow, stretch out, pick, give · To what, where: tree, earth, hand, some, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven, tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reached | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 reached | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bowed | nsubj |
| 10 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 bowed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bowed | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bowed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stretched | nsubj |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 stretched | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 picked | cc |
| 25 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stretched | conj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 picked | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 leaves | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 29 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 some | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flowers | cc |
| 31 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 leaves | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gave | cc |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 picked | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | iobj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 king | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | seven | the tree | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | bow | past | tree | tree | the earth | before seven | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Topic to earth=Recipient | ||
| 3 | stretch out | past | seven | seven's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pick | past | seven not said here | some | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | seven not said here | flowers = flower | to the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Recipient |
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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