The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 269
She gradually opened her eyes, lifted up the lid of the coffin, and sat up alive and well.
Who acts: bit · What happens: open, lift up, sit up · To what, where: eyes, lid
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 (bit), 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 | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 opened | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 lifted | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lid | det |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 coffin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coffin | det |
| 13 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lid | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sat | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 well | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sat | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | bit | bit's eyes | gradually property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | lift up | participle | bit not said here | the lid of the coffin | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit up | past | alive property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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