The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 131
By accident her eyes fell upon the little soldier, and she grew pale and turned away her head.
Who acts: eyes, Ludovine · What happens: fall, grow, turn away · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Ludovine), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 accident | case |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 soldier | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 soldier | amod |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 14 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grew | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Ludovine's eyes | by accident; upon the little soldier | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by accident=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Ludovine | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn away | past | Ludovine not said here | Ludovine's head | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 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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