The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 78

Her movements were so graceful that he forgot to play, and as soon as the notes of his flute ceased she vanished from his sight.

Who acts: movements, youth, notes, light · What happens: be, forget, not play, cease, vanish, move · To what, where: sight, flute

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 (movements, youth, notes, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 movements	nmod:poss
2	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 graceful	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 graceful	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 graceful	advmod
5	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 forgot	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgot	nsubj
8	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 graceful	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgot	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ceased	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ceased	cc
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ceased	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 ceased	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 notes	det
17	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ceased	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 flute	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 flute	nmod:poss
20	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 notes	nmod
21	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 graceful	parataxis
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 vanished	nsubj
23	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ceased	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 sight	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sight	nmod:poss
26	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vanished	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 graceful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	light's movements			graceful property	tree rules
2	forget	past	youth				tree rules
3	not play	to-infinitive	youth not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cease	past	the notes of youth's flute			soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	vanish	past	light		youth's sight		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
6	move		light				nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	note			youth's flute			nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	sight		youth				nom sight «cognition 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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