The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 20
At last she felt she must return to the village, lest she should be missed, and the child was handed back to the old woman, who vanished with her into the lake.
Who acts: heart, old woman · What happens: feel, return, miss, hand back, vanish · To what, where: last, heart, child, lake
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, old woman), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 return | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 return | aux |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 missed | punct |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 missed | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 missed | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 missed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 missed | aux:pass |
| 16 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 return | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 handed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 handed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 handed | aux:pass |
| 22 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 woman | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 woman | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handed | obl:agent |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vanished | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 vanished | nsubj |
| 30 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 woman | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 vanished | obl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 lake | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lake | det |
| 35 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 vanished | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | heart | last | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | must | heart | to the village result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | ||||
| 3 | miss | should · passive | heart | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hand back | past · passive | the old woman | the child | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | vanish | past | the old woman | the lake | with heart | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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