The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 21
But the little child lay as white and still as if she had been dead.
Who acts: little child, child · What happens: lay, be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little child, child), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 white | case |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lay | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dead | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 dead | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 white | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the little child | as white | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as white=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | child | still | dead property | tree rules |
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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