The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 100
Lonely and miserable she sat down by the fire and stared into the red embers.
Who acts: Lonely · What happens: sit down, stare
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lonely), 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 | Lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 miserable | cc |
| 3 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lonely | conj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stared | cc |
| 11 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 embers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 embers | det |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 embers | amod |
| 15 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stared | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Lonely | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | Lonely not said here | into the red embers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into ember=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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