The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 70
The girl saw them from afar, and a great fear fell on her, for she knew her mother’s skill in magic of all kinds.
Who acts: girl, great fear, fear · What happens: see, fall, know · To what, where: eyes, afar, skill, magic
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, great fear, fear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 afar | case |
| 6 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fear | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fear | amod |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 knew | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 skill | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 22 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 magic | case |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kinds | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 kinds | det |
| 27 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 magic | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girl | eyes = eye | afar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall | past | a great fear | on girl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past | fear | girl's mother's skill | magic of all kinds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer skill=Stimulus |
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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