The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 15

She is always watched and guarded by the whirlwind.’

What happens: watch, guard · To what, where: Venus

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 watched	advmod
4	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 guarded	cc
6	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 watched	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 whirlwind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whirlwind	det
9	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guarded	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · passive		Venus				always property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	guard	participle						by the whirlwind	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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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