The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 68
With a heart as light as her footsteps, the girl ran from the house, and spent her evening happily with Denis.
Who acts: girl · What happens: run, spend · To what, where: house
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 footsteps | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 8 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 light | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spent | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spent | cc |
| 18 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 evening | nmod:poss |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spent | obj |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 18 spent | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Denis | case |
| 23 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spent | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the girl | the house | with a heart as light as girl's footsteps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | spend | past | the girl not said here | evening | with Denis; happily property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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