The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 128
Bedad, in one moment everything was as silent as the grave, and the poor woman lying in a faint in the arms of her husband and her good neighbour.
Who acts: one moment, poor woman · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: faint
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one moment, poor woman), 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 | Bedad | bedad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 silent | punct |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 silent | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 moment | nummod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 silent | nsubj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 silent | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 silent | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 silent | advmod |
| 9 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bedad | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grave | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 silent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 woman | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bedad | appos |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 woman | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 faint | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 faint | det |
| 21 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 arms | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 arms | det |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lying | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 husband | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arms | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 neighbour | cc |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 neighbour | amod |
| 31 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 husband | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bedad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | one moment | as the grave; silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the poor woman not said here | a faint | in the arms of wife's husband and wife's good neighbour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in faint=Location |
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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