The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 99
She was just beginning to doze when she heard a voice quite close to her, which made her jump.
Who acts: princess, voice · What happens: begin, doze, hear, make, jump · To what, where: voice, princess
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, voice), 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 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 doze | mark |
| 6 | doze | doze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beginning | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 doze | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 close | advmod |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 close | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 voice | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | princess | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | doze | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | princess | a voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | past | a voice | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | jump | infinitive | princess not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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