The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 92
Of a sudden she grew deadly white, and fell to the ground as if she were dead.
Who acts: wedding · What happens: grow, fall, be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sudden | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sudden | det |
| 3 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 white | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 dead | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 dead | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | wedding | of a sudden; white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | wedding not said here | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wedding | dead property | tree rules |
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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