More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 101
And she bent her stiff old back, and lifted the lid to look inside.
Who acts: hinny · What happens: bend, lift, look · To what, where: lid
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hinny), 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 | _ | 3 bent | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 old | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bent | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lifted | cc |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lid | det |
| 12 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lifted | advcl |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | hinny | old property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | hinny not said here | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | hinny not said here | inside property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «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.
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