The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 71
Left alone, Laufer sat and stared at the heap of shining silk before her.
Who acts: Laufer, heap · What happens: leave, sit, stare, shine · To what, where: silk
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laufer, heap), 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 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sat | advcl |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Left | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Left | punct |
| 4 | Laufer | Laufer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stared | cc |
| 7 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 heap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heap | det |
| 10 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stared | obl |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 shining | mark |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 heap | acl |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shining | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shining | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | Laufer not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Laufer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | past | Laufer not said here | at the heap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heap=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | the heap not said here | silk | before Laufer | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme |
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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