The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 73
But at length, breathless and exhausted, he reached her side, and gasped out:
Who acts: Sir · What happens: reach, gasp out · To what, where: side, length
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 breathless | punct |
| 5 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 length | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 exhausted | cc |
| 7 | exhausted | exhausted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 breathless | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 length | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gasped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gasped | cc |
| 15 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 gasped | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Sir | woman's side | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent side=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | gasp out | past | Sir not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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