The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 15
The following day, when the sun was at its highest and hottest, she noticed her draw a fan from the folds of her dress and hold it before her eyes.
Who acts: sun, Grimace · What happens: follow, be, notice, draw, hold · To what, where: fan, folds, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Grimace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 highest | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 highest | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 highest | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 highest | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 highest | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 highest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 day | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hottest | cc |
| 13 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 highest | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 noticed | nsubj |
| 16 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 draw | nmod:poss |
| 18 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 noticed | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fan | det |
| 20 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 draw | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 folds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 folds | det |
| 23 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 draw | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dress | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dress | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 folds | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hold | cc |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 draw | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hold | obj |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hold | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the sun | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the sun not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | notice | past | Grimace | day | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | draw | infinitive | Grimace not said here | a fan | the folds of Grimace's dress | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fan=Theme from fold=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | hold | infinitive | Grimace not said here | fan | Grimace's eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme before eye=Location |
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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