The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 106
They stole down softly into the garden, and got over the wall.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: steal down, get · To what, where: garden, wall
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 stole | compound:prt |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 2 stole | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stole | parataxis |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal down | past | brothers = brother | the garden | softly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | the wall | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over wall=Destination |
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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