The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 22
Glad indeed was she to enter, for she was very tired, and, after eating a good supper of fruit and milk which she found in one of the rooms, she flung herself down on a pile of cushions and went to sleep with her baby beside her.
Who acts: snake, fruit · What happens: be, eat, find, fling down, go, sleep · To what, where: good supper, snake, pile
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, fruit), 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 | Glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 enter | advcl |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Glad | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enter | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enter | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 enter | mark |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 tired | case |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 tired | advmod |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 enter | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flung | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 eating | mark |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 flung | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 supper | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 supper | amod |
| 20 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eating | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fruit | case |
| 22 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supper | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 milk | cc |
| 24 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fruit | conj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 found | nsubj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 found | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 rooms | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rooms | det |
| 32 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 one | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eating | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 flung | nsubj |
| 35 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | parataxis |
| 36 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 flung | obj |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 flung | compound:prt |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 pile | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 pile | det |
| 40 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flung | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 cushions | case |
| 42 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 pile | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 went | cc |
| 44 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 flung | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 sleep | mark |
| 46 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 went | xcomp |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 baby | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 baby | nmod:poss |
| 49 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sleep | obl |
| 50 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 51 her | case |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sleep | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | snake | enter property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | snake | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | snake not said here | a good supper of fruit and milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | fruit and milk | in one of the rooms | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fling down | past | snake | snake | a pile of cushions | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on pile=Destination | |||
| 6 | go | past | snake not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | sleep | to-infinitive | snake not said here | with snake's baby; beside snake | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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