The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 62

Then she dried her face with her long hair, and was about to go away, when her eye suddenly fell upon the spot where the young man was sitting, and she turned towards the tree.

Who acts: light, eye, young man · What happens: dry, be, go away, fall, sit, turn · To what, where: face, spot, tree

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, eye, young man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dried	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dried	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 about	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 about	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 about	cop
13	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dried	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 about	xcomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 fell	advmod
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eye	nmod:poss
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 spot	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spot	det
25	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 sitting	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sitting	aux
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 spot	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 turned	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turned	nsubj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
36	towards	towards	ADP	_	38 tree	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past	light	light's face		then	with light's long hair	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with hair=Instrument
2	is	past	light not said here				about property	tree rules
3	go away	to-infinitive	light not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	light's eye		the spot		suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon spot=Location
5	sit	past · progressive	the young man					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn	past	light		the tree			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards tree=Trajectory

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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