The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 51
It was at this very moment that Bellah, who was skimming the milk in the farm dairy, heard the fairy bell tinkle violently.
Who acts: pond, Bellah, fairy bell · What happens: be, skim, hear, tinkle · To what, where: milk, farm dairy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pond, Bellah, fairy bell), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moment | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 moment | advmod |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 heard | mark |
| 8 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 skimming | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 skimming | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 skimming | aux |
| 12 | skimming | skim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Bellah | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 milk | det |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skimming | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dairy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dairy | det |
| 17 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dairy | compound |
| 18 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skimming | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bellah | punct |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bell | det |
| 22 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bell | amod |
| 23 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tinkle | nsubj |
| 24 | tinkle | tinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 25 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 24 tinkle | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pond | at this moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | skim | past · progressive | Bellah | the milk | the farm dairy | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear | past | Bellah | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | tinkle | present | the fairy bell | violently property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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