The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 250
When the little Dwarfs came home in the evening they found Snowdrop lying on the ground, and she neither breathed nor stirred.
Who acts: little Dwarfs, dwarfs, Snowdrop · What happens: come, find, lie, breathe, stir · To what, where: Snowdrop, ground
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Dwarfs, dwarfs, Snowdrop), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dwarfs | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dwarfs | amod |
| 4 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Snowdrop | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 breathed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 breathed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 breathed | nsubj |
| 20 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 21 breathed | advmod |
| 21 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | parataxis |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 stirred | cc |
| 23 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 breathed | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the little Dwarfs | evening | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | dwarfs = dwarf | Snowdrop | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Snowdrop not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | breathe | past | SNOWDROP | neither property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stir | past | SNOWDROP not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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