The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 8

For a time she lost all consciousness, and when she came to herself again she was lying in a lovely meadow, with the sun shining brightly overhead, and a thousand flowers blooming at her feet.

Who acts: girl, sun, thousand flowers · What happens: lose, come, lie, shine, bloom · To what, where: consciousness, girl, lovely meadow, feet

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (girl, sun, thousand flowers), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 consciousness	det
7	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lying	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 came	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	aux
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lost	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 meadow	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 meadow	det
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 meadow	amod
22	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shining	punct
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 shining	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun	det
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shining	nsubj
27	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 lying	conj
28	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	29 overhead	advmod
29	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	27 shining	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 blooming	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 blooming	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 flowers	det
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 flowers	nummod
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 blooming	nsubj
35	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lost	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 blooming	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	girl	all consciousness			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Eventuality
2	come	past	girl		girl		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location
3	lie	past · progressive	girl			a lovely meadow			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location
4	shine	gerund	the sun					overhead property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bloom	gerund	a thousand flowers			girl's feet			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location

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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