The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 32
Then she drew her breath, opened her eyes, and said, ‘Ah! where am I?’
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: draw, open, say, be · To what, where: breath, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 breath | nmod:poss |
| 5 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 where | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 where | punct |
| 15 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 17 where | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ah | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 said | advmod |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 where | cop |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 where | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 where | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | woman | woman's breath | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past | woman not said here | woman's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | I | where 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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