The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 78
Meantime, the other brother was standing near the golden lilies at home, when suddenly one of them bent over and fell to the ground.
Who acts: Meantime, one · What happens: stand, bend over, fall · To what, where: golden lilies
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime, one), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 lilies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lilies | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lilies | amod |
| 11 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 standing | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lilies | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bent | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 bent | mark |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 bent | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | parataxis |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 bent | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bent | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Meantime | the golden lilies at home | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near lily=Location | ||||
| 2 | bend over | past | one of lilies | over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | one of lilies not said here | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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