The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 67
At last she raised her eyes, which had been fixed on the ground, and beheld the fairy standing in a dark corner by the hearth, observing her with a mocking look.
Who acts: two, fairy · What happens: raise, fix, behold, stand, observe · To what, where: eyes, last, ground, fairy, dark corner, two
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 (two, fairy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 raised | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixed | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fixed | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fixed | aux:pass |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eyes | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fixed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beheld | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beheld | cc |
| 17 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fairy | det |
| 19 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beheld | obj |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fairy | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 corner | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 corner | det |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 corner | amod |
| 24 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 standing | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 hearth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hearth | det |
| 27 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 corner | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 observing | punct |
| 29 | observing | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 standing | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 observing | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 look | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 look | det |
| 33 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 look | compound |
| 34 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 observing | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | two | two's eyes | last | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at last=Destination | |||
| 2 | fix | past · perfect · passive | two's eyes | the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | two not said here | the fairy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | the fairy not said here | a dark corner by the hearth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 5 | observe | gerund | the fairy not said here | two | with a mocking look | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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