The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 36
Then she sank down on the ground and wept bitterly, not daring to return home until some hours had passed away.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: sink down, weep, not dare, not return, pass away · To what, where: ground, hours
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 sank | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sank | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | conj |
| 10 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 9 wept | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daring | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 daring | advmod |
| 13 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wept | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 return | mark |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 daring | xcomp |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 return | advmod |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 passed | mark |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 hours | det |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passed | aux |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 return | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | past | Lion | the ground | then | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | weep | past | Lion not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not dare | gerund | Lion not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not return | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pass away | past · perfect · passive | some hours | away property | tree rules |
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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