The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 119
Then she looked round for some place to rest in, and she beheld a little house of light before her, and fast she hurried towards it.
Who acts: wife · What happens: look round, rest, behold, hurry · To what, where: little house, light
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rest | mark |
| 9 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 place | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 rest | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beheld | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beheld | nsubj |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beheld | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurried | cc |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 hurried | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurried | nsubj |
| 26 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | wife | then | for some place; round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | |||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | behold | past | wife | a little house of light | before woman | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hurry | past | wife | light | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
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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