The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 19
In an instant she felt herself rising from the ground, with the fan always beneath her, and while Grimace was too much blinded by her fury to notice what was going on the princess was quickly soaring out of her reach.
Who acts: princess, Grimace, fury · What happens: feel, rise, be, blind, notice, go · To what, where: princess, instant, ground, much, reach · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, Grimace, fury), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 felt | obj |
| 7 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rising | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fan | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fan | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fan | det |
| 14 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rising | obl |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 fan | advmod |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fan | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 blinded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blinded | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 much | mark |
| 21 | Grimace | Grimace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 much | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 much | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 blinded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 felt | parataxis |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 fury | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fury | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 blinded | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 notice | mark |
| 30 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 blinded | advcl |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 going | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 going | aux |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 notice | ccomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 princess | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 princess | det |
| 36 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 going | obl |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 soaring | aux |
| 38 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 39 soaring | advmod |
| 39 | soaring | soar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 going | conj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 reach | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 reach | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 reach | nmod:poss |
| 43 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 soaring | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | princess | princess | a instant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | princess not said here | the ground | with the fan beneath princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | Grimace | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blind | participle · passive | princess's fury | much | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | notice | to-infinitive | princess's fury not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | on the princess | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on princess=Location | |||||
| 7 | soar | past · progressive | princess's reach | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme out reach=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | infuriate | princess | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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