The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 66
Then suddenly Tephany’s eyes fell on the clothes, and to make up for lost time she began to wash them with great vigour.
Who acts: eyes, girl · What happens: fall, make up, lose, begin, wash · To what, where: clothes, lost time, eyes
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 (eyes, girl), 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 | 2 suddenly | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 3 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Tephany | case |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clothes | det |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fell | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 make | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wash | mark |
| 21 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wash | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 vigour | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 vigour | amod |
| 25 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wash | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Tephany's eyes | the clothes | suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on clothes=Location | |||
| 2 | make up | to-infinitive | Tephany's eyes not said here | time | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | begin | past | girl | lost time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wash | to-infinitive | girl not said here | eyes = eye | with great vigour | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with vigour=Instrument |
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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