The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 87
‘What is the matter with me?’ she thought, but somehow or other she managed to reach the hut, and threw herself down in a corner, where she slept so soundly that for days no one was able to wake her.
Who acts: body, one · What happens: be, think, manage, reach, throw down, sleep · To what, where: matter, hut, body, corner · 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 (body, one), 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 | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 somehow | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 somehow | cc |
| 14 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 other | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 somehow | conj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | nsubj |
| 18 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 reach | mark |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 managed | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hut | det |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reach | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 threw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 threw | cc |
| 25 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | parataxis |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 threw | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 threw | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 corner | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 corner | det |
| 30 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slept | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 slept | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 slept | nsubj |
| 34 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 threw | conj |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 soundly | advmod |
| 36 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 34 slept | advmod |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 able | mark |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 able | obl |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 able | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 able | cop |
| 43 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 slept | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 wake | mark |
| 45 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 able | xcomp |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 wake | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | with me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | body | somehow property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | manage | past | body | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | body not said here | the hut | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw down | past | body | a corner | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in corner=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sleep | past | body | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | no one | day | able property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | wake | to-infinitive | no one not said here | body | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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