The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 21

‘The ball is moving in my hand,’ and looking round she beheld a cloud flying towards them, large and blacker than the first, and striped with red.

Who acts: ball, edge, cloud · What happens: move, look round, behold, fly, stripe · To what, where: hand, cloud

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, edge, cloud), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 moving	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moving	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 moving	aux
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 beheld	csubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moving	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moving	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 moving	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looking	cc
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 moving	conj
13	round	round	ADV	_	12 looking	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beheld	nsubj
15	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cloud	det
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beheld	obj
18	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cloud	acl
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 large	punct
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flying	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blacker	cc
24	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 large	conj
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 first	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 first	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 blacker	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 striped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 striped	cc
30	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 beheld	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 red	case
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 striped	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	present · progressive	the ball		my hand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory
2	look round	gerund	the ball not said here			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	behold	past	edge	a cloud			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
4	fly	gerund	a cloud not said here			towards shapes = shape	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination
5	stripe	participle				with red	tree rules

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.

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