The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 47
In leaping after little flies she had thrown herself high upon the bank, where she had lain till she was nearly dead.
Who acts: Charming · What happens: leap, throw, lie, be · To what, where: Charming, bank
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaping | mark |
| 2 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thrown | advcl |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 flies | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flies | amod |
| 5 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leaping | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thrown | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 thrown | obj |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thrown | xcomp |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bank | det |
| 13 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lain | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lain | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lain | aux |
| 18 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thrown | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 dead | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | cop |
| 22 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 23 dead | advmod |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lain | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | gerund | Charming not said here | after little flies | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · perfect | Charming | Charming | the bank | high property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon bank=Destination | ||
| 3 | lie | past · perfect · passive | Charming | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Charming | dead, nearly property | tree rules |
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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