The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 107
Then, like a flash, she crossed this bridge also.
Who acts: remembrance · What happens: cross · To what, where: bridge
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance), 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 | 8 crossed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 flash | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flash | det |
| 5 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crossed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flash | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crossed | nsubj |
| 8 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bridge | det |
| 10 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crossed | obj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 crossed | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | remembrance | this bridge | then | like a flash | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient |
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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