The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 19
Thankfully she found herself at the gate of a convent, and asked if she might stay there till morning.
Who acts: Tephany · What happens: find, ask, stay · To what, where: Tephany, gate
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany), 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 | Thankfully | thankfully | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 convent | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 convent | det |
| 10 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gate | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 stay | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stay | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 stay | aux |
| 17 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stay | advmod |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Tephany | Tephany | the gate of a convent | thankfully property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at gate=Asset | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Tephany not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay a condition, not said to happen | might | Tephany | there | morning | 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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