The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 33
Still, to make sure that there was no mistake, she passed her hands lightly over their heads, and felt the caps that covered them.
Who acts: mistake, caps · What happens: make, be, pass, feel, cover · To what, where: hands, heads, caps
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistake, caps), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 mistake | det |
| 10 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | obj |
| 16 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 13 passed | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 heads | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heads | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 felt | cc |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 caps | det |
| 24 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 felt | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 covered | nsubj |
| 26 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caps | acl:relcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 covered | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | still | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no mistake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | mistake | mistake's hands | hands's heads | lightly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over head=Destination | ||
| 4 | feel | past | mistake not said here | the caps | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cover | past | the caps | caps = cap | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=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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