The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 10
She spent her days very lonely for another twelvemonth, when a beautiful little girl was sent to her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: spend, send · To what, where: beautiful little girl, princess
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 days | nmod:poss |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spent | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spent | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 twelvemonth | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 twelvemonth | det |
| 9 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lonely | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 sent | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux:pass |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 spent | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | princess | day | lonely property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | a beautiful little girl | princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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