The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 70
At his first words she brightened up.
Who acts: girl, two · What happens: brighten up, word · To what, where: first words
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 (girl, two), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 words | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brightened | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brightened | nsubj |
| 6 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 brightened | compound:prt |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brighten up | participle | girl | two's first words | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | word | two | nom word «communication 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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