The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 39
On this night she crept quietly out of the house and waited trembling at some little distance from the hut.
Who acts: thread · What happens: creep, wait, tremble · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 crept | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 waited | cc |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crept | conj |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 waited | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 distance | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 distance | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 distance | amod |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembling | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hut | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hut | det |
| 20 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 distance | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | thread | the house | night | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | wait | past | thread not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | thread not said here | at some little distance from the hut | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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