The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 33
Then she hastened after the others, and the poor girl stayed at home and wept.
Who acts: witch, poor girl · What happens: hasten, stay, weep · To what, where: home
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: who acts (witch, poor girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 others | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 others | det |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hastened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stayed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stayed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | nsubj |
| 12 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wept | cc |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stayed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | witch | after the others; then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | the poor girl | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | the poor girl not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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