The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 66
She feared all the time that every step she took was leading her farther from her lover.
Who acts: Turritella, step · What happens: fear, take, lead · To what, where: step, time
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turritella, step), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feared | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 leading | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 step | det |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | nsubj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 step | acl:relcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leading | aux |
| 12 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 farther | nmod:poss |
| 14 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 leading | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 lover | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lover | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 farther | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | Turritella | time | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Turritella | every step not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · progressive | every step | all time | far property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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