The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 62

‘I am a dead woman,’ she said to herself, and stayed quite still, for indeed she was too frightened to move.

Who acts: I, girl · What happens: be, say, stay, move · To what, where: dead woman, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 woman	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stayed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stayed	cc
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 still	advmod
17	still	still	ADV	_	15 stayed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 frightened	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 frightened	mark
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	24 frightened	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 frightened	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 frightened	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 frightened	advmod
24	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stayed	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 move	mark
26	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 frightened	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a dead woman				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	girl		girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	stay	past	girl not said here			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	girl				frightened, indeed property	tree rules
5	move	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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