The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 23
She had hardly spoken when all the forest was lighted up with a sudden glow.
Who acts: Percinet · What happens: speak, light up · To what, where: forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet), 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 | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 spoken | advmod |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lighted | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 forest | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lighted | aux:pass |
| 10 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spoken | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lighted | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 glow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 glow | det |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 glow | amod |
| 15 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Percinet | hardly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | light up | past · passive | all forest | with a sudden glow | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with glow=Material |
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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