The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 92

For seven days she wandered about, eating only the fruit that hung from the trees above her, and every night she climbed up and tucked herself safely among the creepers which bound together the big branches, so that neither lions nor tigers nor panthers might get at her.

Who acts: sister, fruit, creepers, lions · What happens: wander, eat, hang, climb up, tuck, bound · To what, where: fruit, trees, sister, creepers, big branches

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, fruit, creepers, lions), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wandered	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 fruit	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fruit	det
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hung	nsubj
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fruit	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hung	obl
17	above	above	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hung	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 climbed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 climbed	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 climbed	obl:unmarked
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 climbed	nsubj
24	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 climbed	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tucked	cc
27	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 climbed	conj
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 tucked	obj
29	safely	safely	ADV	_	27 tucked	advmod
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 creepers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 creepers	det
32	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tucked	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 bound	nsubj
34	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 creepers	acl:relcl
35	together	together	ADV	_	34 bound	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 branches	det
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 branches	amod
38	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bound	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 get	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	_	49 get	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 get	mark
42	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	43 lions	det
43	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 get	nsubj
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 tigers	cc
45	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lions	conj
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	47 panthers	cc
47	panthers	panther	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lions	conj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 get	aux
49	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 climbed	conj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 get	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	sister			day	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	sister not said here	the fruit				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	hang	past	the fruit		the trees		above sister	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above she=Location
4	climb up	past	sister			night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tuck	past	sister not said here	sister	the creepers		safely property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herself=Theme among creeper=Trajectory
6	bound	present	the creepers	the big branches			together property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location branch=Theme
7	get	might	neither lions nor tigers nor panthers				at sister	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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