The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 103
And the tree stood silent and lost in thought all through the night.
Who acts: tree · What happens: stand, lose · To what, where: thought
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lost | cc |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 thought | case |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 night | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the tree | silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | the tree not said here | thought | night | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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