The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 24
Poor Ingibjorg lay on the grass in terrible pain, and wondering if she should stay there till she died, as no one would know where to look for her.
Who acts: Poor Ingibjorg, Ingibjorg, one · What happens: lie, wonder, stay, die, know, look · To what, where: grass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Ingibjorg, Ingibjorg, one), 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 Ingibjorg | amod |
| 2 | Ingibjorg | Ingibjorg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 grass | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grass | det |
| 6 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pain | amod |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondering | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondering | cc |
| 12 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lay | advcl |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 stay | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stay | aux |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wondering | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stay | advmod |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 died | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 died | nsubj |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stay | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 know | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 know | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 died | conj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 look | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 look | mark |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 know | ccomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 look | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Poor Ingibjorg | the grass | in terrible pain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Poor Ingibjorg not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stay a condition, not said to happen | should | Ingibjorg | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | Ingibjorg | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | know | would | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | for Ingibjorg | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=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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