The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 68
Hastily piling up her load by the fire, and thrusting some sticks into the flame, she ran down to the river and jumped in.
Who acts: third · What happens: pile up, thrust, run down, jump in · To what, where: load, sticks, flame
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), 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 | Hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 2 piling | advmod |
| 2 | piling | pile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 ran | advcl |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 piling | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 load | nmod:poss |
| 5 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piling | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thrusting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thrusting | cc |
| 11 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 piling | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 sticks | det |
| 13 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thrusting | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 flame | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flame | det |
| 16 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrusting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 piling | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 ran | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jumped | cc |
| 25 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ran | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 jumped | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | gerund | third not said here | third's load | by the fire; hastily property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme by fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | thrust | gerund | third not said here | some sticks | the flame | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 3 | run down | past | third | to the river result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result | ||||
| 4 | jump in | past | third not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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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