The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 38
While she was thus suspended, expecting every moment to be dashed to the ground, four fairies happened to pass by.
Who acts: four fairies · What happens: suspend, expect, dash, happen, pass by · To what, where: woman, ground
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four fairies), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 suspended | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspended | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 suspended | advmod |
| 5 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 happened | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expecting | punct |
| 7 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 suspended | advcl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expecting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dashed | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dashed | aux:pass |
| 12 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 moment | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dashed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspended | punct |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 fairies | nummod |
| 18 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pass | mark |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 happened | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 pass | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | past · passive | woman | thus property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expect | gerund | moment | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dash | to-infinitive · passive | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: to ground=Destination | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | four fairies | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass by | to-infinitive | four fairies not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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