The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 17
And she touched his feet, which instantly became as firmly fixed to the floor as if they had been nailed there.
Who acts: Fairy, feet · What happens: touch, become, fix, nail · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, feet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 touched | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 touched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 became | nsubj |
| 8 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 9 became | advmod |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feet | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 fixed | mark |
| 11 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 12 fixed | advmod |
| 12 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 became | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fixed | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 nailed | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 nailed | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 nailed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 nailed | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 nailed | aux:pass |
| 21 | nailed | nail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fixed | advcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 nailed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Fairy | King's feet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | King's feet | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fix | participle | King's feet not said here | to the floor; firmly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to floor=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | nail | past · perfect · passive | feet = foot | there | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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