The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 110
But she remembered the words of the giant, and knew not what had befallen her brothers, and kept her face steadily towards the mountain top, which grew nearer and nearer every moment.
Who acts: girl, mountain top · What happens: remember, not know, befall, keep, grow · To what, where: words, brothers, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mountain top), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 remembered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remembered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 giant | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 knew | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 befallen | aux |
| 15 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 befallen | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obj |
| 23 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 20 kept | advmod |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 26 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | compound |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grew | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 grew | nsubj |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 top | acl:relcl |
| 31 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 grew | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 nearer | cc |
| 33 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 nearer | conj |
| 34 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 moment | det |
| 35 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nearer | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | girl | the words of the giant | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect · passive | girl's brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep | past | girl not said here | girl's face | towards the mountain top; steadily property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | |||
| 5 | grow | past | the mountain top | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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