The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 70

Then, at last, Tephany began to notice something, and the something made her very sad.

Who acts: last Tephany, something · What happens: begin, notice, make · To what, where: something, 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 (last Tephany, something), 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	7 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Tephany	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct
6	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 notice	mark
9	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 notice	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 something	det
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 sad	advmod
18	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 made	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	last Tephany		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	notice	to-infinitive	last Tephany not said here	something			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	make	past	something	Tephany		sad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product

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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