The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 44
Then Little Lasse was frightened, and crept out on to the path.
What happens: frighten, creep out · To what, where: Little Lasse, path
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lasse | amod |
| 3 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crept | cc |
| 8 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 crept | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 path | det |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Little Lasse | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | creep out | past | the path | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Trajectory |
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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