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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 18

The princess opened her eyes in a great fright and stared at her, and while she was doing so, the lady wrapped a shawl round the baby that was sitting in its father’s lap, and either sank through the ground with it or went up through the wide chimney.

Who acts: princess, lady, baby · What happens: open, stare, do, wrap, sit, sink · To what, where: eyes, great fright, shawl, lap, ground, wide chimney

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, lady, baby), 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

detnsubjnmod:possobjcasedetamodoblccconjcaseoblpunctccmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodpunctdetnsubjconjdetobjcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relclcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodparataxiscasedetoblcaseoblccconjcompound:prtcasedetamodoblpunctrootTheDETprincessNOUNopenedVERBherPRONeyesNOUNinADPaDETgreatADJfrightNOUNandCCONJstaredVERBatADPherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwhileSCONJshePRONwasAUXdoingVERBsoADV,PUNCTtheDETladyNOUNwrappedVERBaDETshawlNOUNroundADPtheDETbabyNOUNthatPRONwasAUXsittingVERBinADPitsPRONfatherNOUN’sPARTlapNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJeitherADVsankVERBthroughADPtheDETgroundNOUNwithADPitPRONorCCONJwentVERBupADPthroughADPtheDETwideADJchimneyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 princessdet
2princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing3 openednsubj
3openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 eyesnmod:poss
5eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur3 openedobj
6ininADP_9 frightcase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 frightdet
8greatgreatADJDegree=Pos9 frightamod
9frightfrightNOUNNumber=Sing3 openedobl
10andandCCONJ_11 staredcc
11staredstareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 openedconj
12atatADP_13 hercase
13hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 staredobl
14,,PUNCT_19 doingpunct
15andandCCONJ_19 doingcc
16whilewhileSCONJ_19 doingmark
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 doingnsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 doingaux
19doingdoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 staredadvcl
20sosoADV_19 doingadvmod
21,,PUNCT_24 wrappedpunct
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 ladydet
23ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing24 wrappednsubj
24wrappedwrapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 doingconj
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 shawldet
26shawlshawlNOUNNumber=Sing24 wrappedobj
27roundroundADP_29 babycase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 babydet
29babybabyNOUNNumber=Sing24 wrappedobl
30thatthatPRONPronType=Rel32 sittingnsubj
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 sittingaux
32sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 babyacl:relcl
33ininADP_37 lapcase
34itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 fathernmod:poss
35fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing37 lapnmod:poss
36’s'sPART_35 fathercase
37laplapNOUNNumber=Sing32 sittingobl
38,,PUNCT_41 sankpunct
39andandCCONJ_41 sankcc
40eithereitherADVPronType=Ind41 sankadvmod
41sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 openedparataxis
42throughthroughADP_44 groundcase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 grounddet
44groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing41 sankobl
45withwithADP_46 itcase
46ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 sankobl
47ororCCONJ_48 wentcc
48wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 sankconj
49upupADP_48 wentcompound:prt
50throughthroughADP_53 chimneycase
51thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 chimneydet
52widewideADJDegree=Pos53 chimneyamod
53chimneychimneyNOUNNumber=Sing48 wentobl
54..PUNCT_3 openedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1openpastthe princessprincess's eyesa great frightvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in fright=Location
2starepastthe princess not said hereat princessvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3dopast · progressiveprincessvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4wrappastthe ladya shawlround the babyvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shawl=Theme
5sitpast · progressivethe babyshawl's father's lapvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location
6sinkpastthe groundwith shawl; either propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument
7go uppastthe wide chimneyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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