The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 72
Then she ran along the grassy path till she came to a cave in front of which a stream fell over some rocks into a basin.
Who acts: girl, stream · What happens: run, come, fall over · To what, where: grassy path, cave, rocks, basin
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 (girl, stream), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 6 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 path | amod |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cave | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fell | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 front | acl:relcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 rocks | advmod |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 rocks | det |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 basin | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 basin | det |
| 26 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | girl | the grassy path | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | girl | a cave in front | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fall over | past | a stream | some rocks | a basin | of front | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location into basin=Destination |
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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