The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 26
But the sword slid swiftly and silently along the case till only the point was left touching it.
Who acts: sword, point · What happens: slide, leave, touch · To what, where: case, point, Sword
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, point), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 slid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slid | nsubj |
| 4 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 4 slid | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silently | cc |
| 7 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 5 swiftly | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 case | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 case | det |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slid | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 left | mark |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 point | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 point | det |
| 14 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux:pass |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slid | advcl |
| 17 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 left | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touching | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | past | the sword | the case | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along case=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the point | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | the point not said here | Sword | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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