The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 21
She staggered along the path and almost fell at his feet, and Souci, afraid that she might have hurt herself, picked her up and set her on her feet again before passing on his way.
Who acts: Aveline · What happens: stagger, fall, hurt, pick up, set, pass · To what, where: path, feet, Aveline, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aveline), 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 | 2 staggered | nsubj |
| 2 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 path | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 path | det |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 staggered | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 staggered | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 afraid | cc |
| 14 | Souci | Souci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 staggered | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 hurt | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hurt | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hurt | aux |
| 21 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 afraid | advcl |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 hurt | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 picked | punct |
| 24 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 staggered | parataxis |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 picked | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 picked | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 picked | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 feet | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 set | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 35 passing | mark |
| 35 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 set | advcl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 way | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 way | nmod:poss |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 passing | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 staggered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stagger | past | Aveline | the path | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Aveline not said here | king's feet | almost property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 3 | hurt | might · perfect · passive | Aveline | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer herself=Result | |||||
| 4 | pick up | past | Aveline | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 5 | set | past | Aveline | Aveline's feet | again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on foot=Destination | |||
| 6 | pass | gerund | king's way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=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 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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