The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 8
she was wide awake in a moment, though she was sly enough to keep her eyes shut at first.
Who acts: Bird · What happens: be
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 (Bird), 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 | 4 awake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awake | cop |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 4 awake | advmod |
| 4 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awake | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | cop |
| 12 | sly | sly | ADV | _ | 13 enough | advmod |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 awake | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 first | case |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 shut | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bird | moment | awake, wide property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Bird | enough, keep, shut property | tree rules |
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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