The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 62
Then, rising, she nodded to Tephany and vanished.
Who acts: aunt · What happens: rise, nod, vanish · To what, where: Tephany
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt), 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 | 6 nodded | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 nodded | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rising | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nodded | nsubj |
| 6 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Tephany | case |
| 8 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nodded | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vanished | cc |
| 10 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nodded | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | aunt not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nod | past | aunt | Tephany | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tephany=Recipient | |||
| 3 | vanish | past | aunt not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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