The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 61
She stopped underneath the tree where the maiden dwelt and, gathering some dry sticks, kindled a fire.
Who acts: woman, maiden · What happens: stop, dwell, gather, kindle · To what, where: dry sticks, fire
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, maiden), 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 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 dwelt | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dwelt | nsubj |
| 9 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gathering | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gathering | punct |
| 12 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 dwelt | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 sticks | det |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sticks | amod |
| 15 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gathering | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kindled | punct |
| 17 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kindled | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | woman | underneath the tree | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | the maiden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gather | gerund | the maiden not said here | some dry sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kindle | past | woman not said here | a fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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