English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 72
And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill-dam of Binnorie, and saw her sweet pale face.
Who acts: fringe · What happens: lie, pass, see · To what, where: beauty, famous harper, sweet pale face
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fringe), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 lay | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 harper | det |
| 10 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 harper | amod |
| 11 | harper | harper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 harper | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 dam | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dam | det |
| 15 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dam | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mill | punct |
| 17 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Binnorie | case |
| 19 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dam | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 25 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | fringe | fringe's beauty; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | a famous harper not said here | by the mill dam of Binnorie | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by dam=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | fringe not said here | fringe's sweet pale face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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