The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 47
However, there was no time for talking and concealing her fright.
Who acts: time, girl · What happens: be, talk, conceal, fright · To what, where: fright
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, girl), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 talking | mark |
| 8 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 concealing | cc |
| 10 | concealing | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 talking | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fright | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 concealing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no time | there | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | gerund | no time not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | conceal | gerund | no time not said here | girl's fright | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fright | girl | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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