The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 100
She was interrupted at this moment by the arrival of a very handsome young man.
Who acts: arrival, handsome young man · What happens: interrupt, arrive · To what, where: Queen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrival, handsome young man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 interrupted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 3 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 interrupted | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 arrival | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arrival | det |
| 9 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 interrupted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 handsome | advmod |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrival | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past · passive | the arrival of a handsome young man | Queen | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrive | a handsome young man | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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