The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 34
But she noticed how slowly he was riding, and how deeply sunk he was in thought, so she didn’t quite give herself up as lost.
Who acts: Helena, Prince · What happens: notice, ride, be, not give up, lose · To what, where: Helena
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena, Prince), 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 | _ | 3 noticed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 slowly | advmod |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 riding | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 riding | aux |
| 8 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 noticed | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 deeply | advmod |
| 12 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 17 thought | advmod |
| 13 | sunk | sunk | ADP | _ | 17 thought | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 thought | case |
| 17 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 riding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 give | advmod |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 riding | parataxis |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 give | compound:prt |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 lost | mark |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 give | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Helena | slowly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · progressive | Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Prince | sunk thought; deeply property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not give up | past · do-support | Helena | Helena | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Source | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | Helena not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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