The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 97
Now Aziliez was the loveliest girl for miles round, and she and Denis had known each other from childhood.
Who acts: Aziliez, loveliest girl · What happens: be, know · To what, where: loveliest girl, Aziliez, childhood
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 (Aziliez, loveliest 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Aziliez | advmod |
| 2 | Aziliez | Aziliez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 miles | case |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 girl | nmod |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 miles | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 known | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Denis | cc |
| 14 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 she | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 girl | acl |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 known | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 childhood | case |
| 20 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Aziliez | the loveliest girl | for miles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past · perfect · passive | the loveliest girl not said here | Aziliez | childhood | each other obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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