The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 84
Luckily this is a new moon just now, for the herb only springs up at such times.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, spring up · To what, where: new moon
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (this), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 6 moon | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moon | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moon | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 now | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 moon | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 springs | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 herb | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herb | det |
| 12 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 springs | obl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 springs | advmod |
| 14 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moon | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 springs | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 times | case |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 springs | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | a new moon | now | luckily property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | spring up | present | this not said here | time | for the herb | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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