The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 70
Stumbling and raging, Peppina set off for home, thinking herself fortunate to find a stick by the wayside with which to support herself.
Who acts: Peppina, wayside · What happens: stumble, rage, set off, think, find, support · To what, where: Peppina, stick
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 (Peppina, wayside), 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 | Stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 raging | cc |
| 3 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Stumbling | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stumbling | punct |
| 5 | Peppina | Peppina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thinking | obj |
| 13 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thinking | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fortunate | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stick | det |
| 17 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wayside | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wayside | det |
| 20 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 support | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 support | mark |
| 24 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wayside | acl:relcl |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 support | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble | gerund | Peppina not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | Peppina not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set off | past | Peppina | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Peppina not said here | Peppina | fortunate property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | Peppina not said here | a stick | by the wayside | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic | |||
| 6 | support | to-infinitive | the wayside | Peppina | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus |
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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