The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 35

At last, when her strength was almost gone, the genius lowered his sword for an instant.

Who acts: strength, genius · What happens: be, lower · To what, where: sword, last

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (strength, genius), 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	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lowered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 strength	nmod:poss
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lowered	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 genius	det
12	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lowered	nsubj
13	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sword	nmod:poss
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lowered	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 instant	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 instant	det
18	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lowered	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lowered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	earth's strength					almost, gone property	tree rules
2	lower	past	the genius	genius's sword		last		for a instant	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme at last=Destination

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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