The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 84
Only the girl remained in her hut; and after a while she too went to join them, groaning and weeping as she walked along.
Who acts: girl · What happens: remain, go, join, groan, weep, walk · To what, where: hut, village
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 remained | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hut | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 join | mark |
| 17 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 join | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 groaning | punct |
| 20 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weeping | cc |
| 22 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 groaning | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 walked | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 weeping | ccomp |
| 26 | along | along | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the girl | girl's hut | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | girl | while | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | join | to-infinitive | girl not said here | village | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | groan | gerund | girl not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | walk | past | girl | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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