The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 44

However, at length she found an opportunity, and made her way one evening alone to the hermit’s shrine.

Who acts: princess · What happens: find, make · To what, where: opportunity, length, princess

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 opportunity	det
8	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl:unmarked
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 evening	nummod
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl:unmarked
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 shrine	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hermit	det
19	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shrine	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 hermit	case
21	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	princess	a opportunity		length		however property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme at length=Asset
2	make	past	princess not said here	princess			evening	to the hermit's shrine; way obl:unmarked; alone property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

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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