The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 44

Ingibjorg was thankful to see her, for she had lain, too frightened to sleep, trembling at every noise.

Who acts: Ingibjorg · What happens: be, see, lie, sleep, tremble · To what, where: Ingibjorg, noise · 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 (Ingibjorg), 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	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thankful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	cop
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thankful	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lain	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 lain	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lain	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lain	aux
11	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 frightened	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 frightened	advmod
14	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lain	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sleep	mark
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 frightened	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trembling	punct
18	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 frightened	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 noise	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 noise	det
21	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trembling	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ingibjorg			thankful property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Ingibjorg not said here	Ingibjorg			tree rules
3	lie	past · perfect · passive		Ingibjorg			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tremble	gerund			every noise		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at noise=Location

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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