The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 126
The girl awoke with a start, and leant forward to grasp him, but he was already flying off, and she only seized a feather from his wing.
Who acts: girl, hoodie · What happens: awake, lean, grasp, fly off, seize · To what, where: hoodie, feather, wing
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 (girl, hoodie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:3297): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 start | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 start | det |
| 6 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leant | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leant | cc |
| 9 | leant | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 leant | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 grasp | mark |
| 12 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leant | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grasp | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flying | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 flying | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flying | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 flying | advmod |
| 19 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 awoke | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 flying | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seized | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seized | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seized | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 seized | advmod |
| 25 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 feather | det |
| 27 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seized | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 wing | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wing | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seized | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the girl | with a start | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | lean | past | the girl not said here | forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grasp | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | hoodie | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly off | past · progressive | hoodie | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seize | past | girl | a feather | hoodie's wing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from wing=Source |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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