The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 48
Sylvia paused for a moment, and then answered: ‘A quiet spirit.’
Who acts: Sylvia · What happens: pause, answer
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia), 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 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paused | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 answered | advmod |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paused | parataxis |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 spirit | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 spirit | punct |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 13 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirit | amod |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | Sylvia | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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