The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 76
In the darkness she climbed up into an oak tree that shadowed the well, and there she lay all night, waiting, waiting.
Who acts: daughter, oak tree · What happens: climb up, shadow, lie, wait · To what, where: darkness, well
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 (daughter, oak tree), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 darkness | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 darkness | det |
| 3 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 climbed | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 shadowed | nsubj |
| 12 | shadowed | shadow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tree | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shadowed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lay | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lay | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lay | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waiting | punct |
| 25 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 waiting | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | daughter | the darkness | into a oak tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | shadow | past | a oak tree | the well | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | daughter | there | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | wait | gerund | daughter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | daughter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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