The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 72
She went out hastily, leaving behind her a little coral casket set with emeralds.
Who acts: Miranda · What happens: go out, leave · To what, where: little coral casket set
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leaving | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 set | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | amod |
| 11 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | amod |
| 12 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | compound |
| 13 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 emeralds | case |
| 15 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Miranda | hastily, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Miranda not said here | a little coral casket set | behind Miranda; with emeralds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent set=Theme behind she=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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