The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 89

Very softly she got up, and took up the large stone under the fire, and creeping out carried the bones to the cave by the fountain, where she dug a hole and buried them anew.

Who acts: body, creeping · What happens: get up, take up, creep out, carry, dig, bury · To what, where: large stone, fire, bones, cave, hole

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, creeping), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 softly	advmod
2	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 took	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stone	amod
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 carried	cc
18	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 carried	csubj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 creeping	compound:prt
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bones	det
22	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carried	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 cave	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cave	det
25	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 fountain	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fountain	det
28	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dug	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 dug	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dug	nsubj
32	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hole	det
34	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dug	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 buried	cc
36	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dug	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 buried	obj
38	anew	anew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 buried	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get up	past	body			softly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	take up	past	body not said here	the large stone	the fire		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	creep out	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	past	creeping	the bones	the cave	by the fountain	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme to cave=Destination
5	dig	past	body	a hole			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
6	bury	past	body not said here	bones = bone		anew property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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