The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 42
When, therefore, she saw her niece standing quietly before her mirror, Barbaik broke out:
Who acts: Barbaik, niece · What happens: see, stand, break out · To what, where: niece, mirror
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, niece), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broke | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 niece | nmod:poss |
| 8 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 niece | acl |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 standing | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 mirror | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mirror | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 15 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 broke | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Barbaik | Barbaik's niece | therefore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer niece=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Barbaik's niece not said here | Barbaik's mirror | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before mirror=Location | |||
| 3 | break out | past | Barbaik | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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