The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 23
When all was quiet again she crept gently out, and stole round the corner.
Who acts: all, donkey · What happens: be, creep out, steal
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, donkey), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 quiet | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 quiet | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crept | nsubj |
| 7 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | parataxis |
| 8 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 7 crept | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 crept | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stole | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stole | cc |
| 12 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | parataxis |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stole | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | again | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | creep out | past | donkey | gently, out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | round the corner | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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