The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 28
But as she was not used to walking far, she soon felt very tired and sat down at the foot of a tree to rest, and presently fell fast asleep.
Who acts: queen · What happens: not use, walk, feel, sit down, rest, fall · To what, where: queen, foot
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 used | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 used | advmod |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 felt | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 walking | mark |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 used | advcl |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 walking | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | advmod |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 tired | advmod |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 felt | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sat | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 foot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 foot | det |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 foot | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rest | mark |
| 26 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sat | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 29 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 30 fell | advmod |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 felt | conj |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 fell | advmod |
| 32 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fell | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | past · passive | queen | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | queen | soon, tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | queen not said here | the foot of a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | queen not said here | asleep, fast, presently property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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