The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 126
There lay the witch’s daughter then, like a bridge over the river, and could not stir, though her heart was consumed with grief.
What happens: lie, not stir, consume · To what, where: daughter, heart
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 witch | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bridge | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 bridge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bridge | det |
| 11 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bridge | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stir | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stir | cc |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stir | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stir | advmod |
| 19 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lay | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 consumed | punct |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 consumed | mark |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 consumed | aux:pass |
| 25 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stir | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 grief | case |
| 27 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 consumed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the witch's daughter | there | then | like a bridge over the river | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daughter=Theme | ||
| 2 | not stir | could | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | consume | past · passive | daughter's heart | with grief | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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