The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 13
So saying she vanished, leaving them in a state of great wonder and excitement.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: say, vanish, leave · To what, where: Sylvain, state · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 vanished | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 vanished | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leaving | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 state | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 state | det |
| 10 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wonder | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wonder | amod |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 state | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 excitement | cc |
| 15 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wonder | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Fairy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | vanish | past | Fairy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Fairy not said here | Sylvain | a state of great wonder and excitement | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in state=Location |
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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