The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 54
Little by little she faded away, and a month ago we laid her in her grave, to hide her sorrows under the earth.”
Who acts: wife, we · What happens: fade away, lay, hide, sorrow · To what, where: wife, grave, sorrows, earth
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: who acts (wife, we), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 little | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 3 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 faded | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 faded | nsubj |
| 5 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 faded | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 month | det |
| 10 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 laid | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | nsubj |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faded | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 grave | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grave | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hide | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hide | mark |
| 20 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 faded | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hide | obj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hide | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hide | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade away | past | wife | away, little property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | we | wife | wife's grave | ago property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in grave=Destination | ||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | wife's sorrows | the earth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient under earth=Location | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | wife | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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