The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 67

She could not leave the place until she had buried them in a pretty little mossy grave at the foot of a tree, and she wrote their names upon the bark of the tree, and how they had all died to save her life.

Who acts: Miranda, Princesses, feet · What happens: not leave, bury, write, die, save, name · To what, where: place, Princesses, pretty little mossy grave, names, life

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda, Princesses, feet), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 leave	advmod
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 buried	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buried	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 buried	aux
10	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 leave	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buried	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 grave	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 grave	det
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grave	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grave	amod
16	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grave	amod
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buried	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 foot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 foot	det
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grave	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 foot	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wrote	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wrote	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wrote	nsubj
27	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	parataxis
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 names	nmod:poss
29	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wrote	obj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 bark	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bark	det
32	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wrote	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 tree	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bark	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 died	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 died	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 died	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 died	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 died	aux
41	all	all	ADV	_	42 died	advmod
42	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 wrote	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 save	mark
44	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 died	advcl
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 life	nmod:poss
46	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 save	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not leave	could	Miranda	the place			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	bury	past · perfect	Miranda	Princesses = princess	a pretty little mossy grave at the foot of a tree		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in grave=Destination
3	write	past	Miranda	feet's names		upon the bark of the tree	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	die	past · perfect	Princesses = princess			all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	save	to-infinitive	Princesses = princess not said here	Miranda's life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	name		feet = foot				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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