The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 34
She got up after midnight, passed through the panel, and found a Beautiful brown bear’s hide hanging in the corner.
Who acts: joy, ’s · What happens: get up, pass, find, hide, hang · To what, where: panel, Beautiful brown bear, corner
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 (joy, ’s), 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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 midnight | case |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 panel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 panel | det |
| 10 | panel | panel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bear | det |
| 15 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bear | amod |
| 16 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bear | amod |
| 17 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 18 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hide | nsubj |
| 19 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bear | acl:relcl |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 hide | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 corner | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 corner | det |
| 23 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hanging | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | joy | midnight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | joy not said here | the panel | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through panel=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | joy not said here | a Beautiful brown bear | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | ’s | a Beautiful brown bear not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hang | gerund | ’s not said here | the corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=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 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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