The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 20
Very soon the slave returned with the litter, which was placed on the ground close to the bushes where the girl lay.
Who acts: slave, girl · What happens: return, place, lay · To what, where: litter, ground
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, girl), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 returned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slave | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 litter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 litter | det |
| 8 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 litter | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ground | amod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bushes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bushes | det |
| 19 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 close | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 lay | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the slave | with the litter; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the litter | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | the girl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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