The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 41
And when this was done, and she heard the giant snoring, she and the king’s son crept out softly and stole across to the stable, where she led out the blue-grey mare and jumped on its back, and her husband mounted behind her.
Who acts: bride, husband · What happens: do, hear, creep out, steal, lead out, jump · To what, where: this, giant snoring, grey mare, back
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, husband), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 done | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snoring | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snoring | amod |
| 12 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crept | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 crept | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 son | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 she | conj |
| 20 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 crept | compound:prt |
| 22 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 20 crept | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stole | cc |
| 24 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crept | conj |
| 25 | across | across | ADV | _ | 24 stole | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 stable | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stable | det |
| 28 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stole | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 led | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 led | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 led | nsubj |
| 32 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stable | acl:relcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 led | compound:prt |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mare | det |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 grey | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 blue | punct |
| 37 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mare | amod |
| 38 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 led | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 jumped | cc |
| 40 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 led | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 back | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 back | nmod:poss |
| 43 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 jumped | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 mounted | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 mounted | cc |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 husband | nmod:poss |
| 47 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 mounted | nsubj |
| 48 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 49 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 50 her | case |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 mounted | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | bride | the giant snoring | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snoring=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | creep out | past | bride | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | steal | past | bride not said here | to the stable; across property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead out | past | bride | the grey mare | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme | ||||
| 6 | jump | past | bride not said here | stable's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | mount | past | bride's husband | behind bride | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind she=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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