Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 93
But a moment I saw her face; for when she noticed that I was looking at her she covered her face with lotus petals.
Who acts: moment, fairy, I · What happens: see, notice, look, cover · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, fairy, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 noticed | mark |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 noticed | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 looking | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | aux |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 noticed | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 covered | nsubj |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 covered | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 petals | case |
| 24 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 petals | compound |
| 25 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 face | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a moment | fairy's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | fairy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | I | at fairy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cover | past | fairy | fairy's face | with lotus petals | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with petal=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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