More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 5
She set herself down on the stone, and by-and-by all round her turned blue.
Who acts: lady · What happens: set down, turn · To what, where: lady, stone
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 turned | mark |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | obl |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 turned | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past | lady | lady | the stone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on stone=Destination | |||
| 2 | turn | past | lady not said here | round lady; all, blue property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round she=Trajectory |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/5/