Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 79
When the fairy turned quickly they got a glimpse of how ugly he was.
Who acts: fairy, fairies · What happens: turn, get, be · To what, where: glimpse
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 turned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | advcl |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 glimpse | det |
| 9 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ugly | case |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ugly | advmod |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 glimpse | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ugly | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the fairy | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | fairies = fairy | a glimpse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | ugly property | tree rules |
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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (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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