The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 74

On the path in front of her stood the fairy who had given her the pin, and as she glanced at Tephany she gave a little mischievous laugh and said:

Who acts: fairy, Tephany · What happens: stand, give, glance, say · To what, where: fairy, path, pin, Tephany, little mischievous laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fairy, Tephany), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 path	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 path	det
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 path	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 front	nmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairy	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 given	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 fairy	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 given	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pin	det
16	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 glanced	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 glanced	nsubj
21	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gave	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 Tephany	case
23	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 glanced	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 laugh	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 laugh	amod
28	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 laugh	amod
29	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gave	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the fairy		the path in front of Tephany		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme on path=Destination
2	give	past · perfect	the fairy	the pin	Tephany			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pin=Theme
3	glance	past	Tephany				at Tephany	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tephany=Theme
4	give	past	Tephany	a little mischievous laugh				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Tephany not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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