The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 165

Then she slipped back, shaking with fear and excitement, to where the young officer still lay asleep, thrust the letter into the fold so his turban, and hurried back to her room.

Who acts: seal, young officer · What happens: slip back, shake, lie, hurry back · To what, where: thrust, fold, room

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seal, young officer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 slipped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shaking	punct
6	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 slipped	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 excitement	cc
10	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fear	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 where	case
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 lay	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 officer	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 officer	amod
16	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thrust	punct
21	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 letter	det
23	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 fold	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fold	det
26	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 turban	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 turban	nmod:poss
29	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hurried	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hurried	cc
32	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 hurried	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 room	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 room	nmod:poss
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hurried	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip back	past	seal			then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	shake	gerund	seal not said here				with fear and excitement	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fear=Co-Patient
3	lie	past	the young officer	thrust	the fold	still	so sun's turban; the letter obl; asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurry back	past	seal not said here		seal's room			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination

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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