The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 13
Poor Lizina did not wait to be told twice, but ran off at once and never stopped till she reached the door of the cats’ house.
Who acts: Poor Lizina, Lizina · What happens: not wait, tell, run off, not stop, reach · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Lizina, Lizina), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lizina | amod |
| 2 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 told | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wait | advcl |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 told | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 stopped | advmod |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stopped | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cats | det |
| 26 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 26 cats | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | Poor Lizina | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | Poor Lizina not said here | twice property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||||
| 4 | not stop | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | reach | past | Lizina | the door of the cats's house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=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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