The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 87
Perhaps she had gone suddenly mad, and there was an evil spirit inside her.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, be · To what, where: evil spirit
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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 mad | advmod |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spirit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spirit | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spirit | amod |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spirit | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | girl | mad, perhaps property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a evil spirit | inside girl | tree rules |
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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