The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 91
But when she turned to answer you, you were so struck with her beauty that all else fled from your mind.
Who acts: girl, your · What happens: turn, answer, strike, flee, mind · To what, where: you, beauty, mind
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 (girl, your), 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 | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 answer | mark |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 answer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | aux:pass |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 struck | advmod |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 beauty | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 19 fled | advmod |
| 19 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 mind | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | girl not said here | you | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | strike | past · passive | you | with girl's beauty | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with beauty=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | flee | participle · passive | girl's beauty | your mind | else property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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