The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 25
Then she placed another finger a little higher up, and so on till he reached the top, where the magpie had built her nest.
Who acts: hope, sun · What happens: place, reach, build · To what, where: finger, top, magpie
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 placed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 finger | det |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 placed | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 higher | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 reached | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 built | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 built | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 magpie | det |
| 22 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 built | aux |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 top | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | hope | another finger | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past | sun | the top | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | past · perfect · passive | the magpie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product |
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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