The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 114
In an instant the place was filled with light, as the red ball fell from the brain of the calf.
Who acts: red ball · What happens: fill, fall · To what, where: place, instant, brain
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red ball), 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 | 7 filled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | aux:pass |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 fell | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ball | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ball | amod |
| 14 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 brain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brain | det |
| 18 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 calf | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 calf | det |
| 21 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brain | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the place | a instant | with light | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with light=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the red ball | the brain of the calf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from brain=Initial_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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/114/