The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 67
One morning, however, as she was staggering along with her bundle on her back, she thought that the river which flowed past their hut looked so cool and inviting that she determined to bathe in it, instead of taking her usual nap.
Who acts: third, river · What happens: stagger, think, flow, look, invite, determine · To what, where: back, usual nap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (third, river), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 staggering | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 staggering | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 staggering | aux |
| 9 | staggering | stagger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 thought | advcl |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 staggering | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bundle | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staggering | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staggering | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 staggering | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 looked | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 flowed | nsubj |
| 24 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 river | acl:relcl |
| 25 | past | past | ADP | _ | 27 hut | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hut | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flowed | obl |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 cool | advmod |
| 30 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looked | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 inviting | cc |
| 32 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 cool | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 determined | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 determined | nsubj |
| 35 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cool | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bathe | mark |
| 37 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 determined | xcomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bathe | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 taking | punct |
| 41 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 43 taking | mark |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 instead | fixed |
| 43 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 bathe | advcl |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 nap | nmod:poss |
| 45 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 nap | amod |
| 46 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 taking | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stagger | past · progressive | third | third's back | with third's bundle; along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | third | morning | however property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | flow | past | the river | past sticks's hut | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | the river | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | invite | gerund | the river not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | determine | past | third | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | bathe | to-infinitive | third not said here | in river | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | take | gerund | third not said here | third's usual nap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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