The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 125
Many hours she slept, and the hoodie entered through a window, and let fall a ring on her hand.
Who acts: Many hours, hoodie · What happens: sleep, enter, let, fall · To what, where: window, ring, hand
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many hours, hoodie), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hours | amod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 entered | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hoodie | det |
| 8 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slept | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 slept | conj |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | Many hours | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the hoodie | a window | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Many hours not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | Many hours not said here | a ring | wife's hand | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient ring=Result |
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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