The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 81
So in a week’s time the horse woke up one morning with a sudden shiver through all his limbs; and when it had passed away, he found his skin shining like a mirror, his body as fat as a water melon, his movement light as a chamois.
Who acts: horse, mistress, skin · What happens: wake up, pass away, find, shine, light · To what, where: shiver, skin, body
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 (horse, mistress, skin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 woke | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 week | det |
| 4 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 week | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | nsubj |
| 9 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 woke | compound:prt |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 morning | nummod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 shiver | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shiver | det |
| 15 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shiver | amod |
| 16 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | obl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 limbs | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 limbs | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shiver | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 passed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 passed | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 passed | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | aux |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 woke | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 passed | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 woke | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 skin | nmod:poss |
| 32 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 33 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 found | xcomp |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 mirror | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mirror | det |
| 36 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shining | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 body | punct |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 body | nmod:poss |
| 39 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shining | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 fat | case |
| 41 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shining | obl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 melon | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 melon | det |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 melon | compound |
| 45 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shining | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 light | punct |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 light | nmod:poss |
| 48 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 light | compound |
| 49 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 melon | conj |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 52 chamois | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 chamois | det |
| 52 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 light | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the horse | morning; time | with a sudden shiver through mistress's limbs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shiver=Instrument | |||
| 2 | pass away | past · perfect · passive | shiver | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | mistress | mistress's skin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent skin=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | mistress's skin not said here | mistress's body | like a mirror; as fat; as a water melon and mistress's movement light as a chamois | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | light | mistress | as a chamois | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
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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