The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 35
Then she stole back, and went down to the parlour fire, and put the hide into the middle of it till it was all fine ashes.
Who acts: joy, hide · What happens: steal back, go down, put, be · To what, where: hide, middle
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, hide), 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 stole | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 stole | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stole | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 11 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | compound |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stole | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hide | det |
| 17 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 middle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 middle | det |
| 20 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 middle | nmod |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 ashes | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ashes | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ashes | cop |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 ashes | advmod |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ashes | amod |
| 28 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal back | past | joy | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | joy not said here | to the parlour fire; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | joy not said here | the hide | the middle of middle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hide=Goal | |||
| 4 | is | past | hide | till fine ashes | all property | tree rules |
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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