The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 43
As she ceased speaking, the lady of the red hat suddenly disappeared, and of course Jack knew she was a fairy.
Who acts: garden, lady · What happens: cease, speak, disappear, know, be · To what, where: fairy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, lady), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 ceased | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 disappeared | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappeared | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hat | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hat | amod |
| 11 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | nmod |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 disappeared | advmod |
| 13 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Jack | case |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 of | fixed |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | obl |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fairy | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fairy | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fairy | det |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | garden | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the lady of the red hat not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past | the lady of the red hat | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | garden not said here | of Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of jack=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | lady | a fairy | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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