The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 77
He gazed at her in wonder, when suddenly she began to dance.
Who acts: youth, light · What happens: gaze, begin, dance · To what, where: wonder
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, light), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gazed | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wonder | case |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gazed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 suddenly | advmod |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 began | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gazed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dance | mark |
| 13 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | youth | wonder | at light | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | light | suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | light not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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