The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 128
Then the mist suddenly grew bright, and Dotterine’s godmother was seen standing there.
Who acts: mist, godmother · What happens: grow, see, stand · To what, where: godmother
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist, godmother), 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 | 5 grew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mist | det |
| 3 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 9 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Dotterine | case |
| 11 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grew | conj |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 seen | xcomp |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 standing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the mist | then | bright, suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | Dotterine's godmother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | Dotterine's godmother not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 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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