The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 83
In a moment she heard Denis whistling gaily, and as her aunt was safely counting her cabbages, she hurried out to meet him.
Who acts: girl, Denis, aunt · What happens: hear, whistle, count, hurry out, meet · To what, where: Denis, cabbages
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, Denis, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 heard | xcomp |
| 8 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 whistling | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hurried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hurried | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 counting | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 13 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 counting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 counting | aux |
| 15 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 16 counting | advmod |
| 16 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 hurried | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cabbages | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 counting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 counting | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hurried | nsubj |
| 21 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 hurried | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 meet | mark |
| 24 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hurried | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meet | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | girl | Denis | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whistle | gerund | Denis not said here | gaily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | count | past · progressive | girl's aunt | girl's cabbages | safely property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme | |||
| 4 | hurry out | past | girl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | girl not said here | Denis | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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