The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 86
Reluctantly she touched the stone with her finger, and in a moment it resumed its human shape.
Who acts: witch, stone · What happens: touch, resume · To what, where: stone, human shape
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 (witch, stone), 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 | Reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 3 touched | advmod |
| 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 resumed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 resumed | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resumed | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 resumed | nsubj |
| 15 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shape | nmod:poss |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shape | amod |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resumed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | witch | the stone | with witch's finger; reluctantly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Experiencer with finger=Instrument | |||
| 2 | resume | past | stone | stone's human shape | moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
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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