The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 121
And in a moment the wife was stretched out stiffly, with a linen sheet spread across her, like a corpse.
What happens: stretch out, spread · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 stretched | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stretched | aux:pass |
| 8 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 stretched | compound:prt |
| 10 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 8 stretched | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spread | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sheet | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sheet | det |
| 14 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sheet | compound |
| 15 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | obl |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stretched | conj |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spread | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 corpse | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 corpse | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 corpse | det |
| 22 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past · passive | the wife | moment | stiffly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | spread | past | with a linen sheet; across wife; like a corpse | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across she=Destination |
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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