The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 100
She did not forget the little Roe either, but went to the corner where it lay, and gently stroked its back.
Who acts: nurse, corner · What happens: not forget, go, lie, stroke · To what, where: little Roe, corner, back
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, corner), 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 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 forget | advmod |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Roe | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Roe | amod |
| 7 | Roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | obj |
| 8 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 forget | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lay | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 corner | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stroked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stroked | cc |
| 20 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 stroked | advmod |
| 21 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stroked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · do-support | nurse | the little Roe | either property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | the corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stroke | past | corner's back | gently property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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