The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 46
And at the first sight of her the wounded animal shook itself quickly, and in a moment its wounds were healed, and there was not even a mark on its glossy skin.
Who acts: animal · What happens: shake, heal, not be, sight, wound · To what, where: animal, first sight, wounds, mark, glossy skin, wounded animal
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 (animal), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shook | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shook | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animal | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 animal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 9 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 shook | obj |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 shook | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 healed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 healed | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 healed | obl |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 healed | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 healed | aux:pass |
| 22 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 mark | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 mark | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 mark | advmod |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 mark | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mark | det |
| 30 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shook | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 skin | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 skin | nmod:poss |
| 33 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 skin | amod |
| 34 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mark | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | animal | the first sight of princess's wounded animal | quickly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme at sight=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | heal | past · passive | animal's wounds | moment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | a mark | animal's glossy skin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | princess's wounded animal | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | wound | animal | nom wound «state 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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