The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 11
Friends, she never saw a glimmer after with that one till the day of her death.
Who acts: Friends, nurse · What happens: not see, die · To what, where: glimmer
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friends, nurse), 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 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Friends | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glimmer | det |
| 7 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 death | nmod:poss |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | Friends | a glimmer | after that one; day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimmer=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | die | nurse | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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