The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 70
The lid of a fourth eye dropped heavily, and then those of the fifth and the sixth.
Who acts: lid · What happens: drop
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lid | det |
| 2 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 5 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 eye | amod |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lid | nmod |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 7 dropped | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 those | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 those | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 those | advmod |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 dropped | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fifth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fifth | det |
| 15 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 those | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sixth | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sixth | det |
| 18 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fifth | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | the lid of a fourth eye | heavily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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