The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 159
But just as she was lifting the last sup to her mouth the Fawns appeared suddenly in the door of the next room, and at sight of them she dropped the soup in her lap.
Who acts: _, Fawns · What happens: lift, appear, drop, sight · To what, where: last sup, mouth, door, soup, sight, fawns
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, Fawns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 lifting | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 lifting | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 lifting | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifting | aux |
| 6 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 appeared | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sup | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sup | amod |
| 9 | sup | sup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifting | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fawns | det |
| 14 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 appeared | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 room | amod |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dropped | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dropped | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 sight | case |
| 27 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dropped | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sight | nmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dropped | nsubj |
| 31 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 appeared | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 soup | det |
| 33 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dropped | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 lap | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 lap | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dropped | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past · progressive | _ | the last sup | _'s mouth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sup=Theme to mouth=Destination | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the Fawns | the door of the next room | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in door=Location | |||
| 3 | drop | past | _ | the soup | sight of fawns | in _'s lap | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent soup=Theme at sight=Destination in lap=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | sight | fawns = fawn | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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