The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 12

How long she lay there by the grave and wept one cannot tell, but sure it is that she fell asleep and slept until the sun rose.

Who acts: girl, one, grave, sun · What happens: lie, weep, not tell, be, fall, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, one, grave, sun), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lay	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wept	cc
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wept	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sure	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 sure	cc
17	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 is	nsubj
19	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sure	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 fell	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sure	ccomp
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slept	cc
25	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fell	conj
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 rose	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rose	nsubj
29	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 slept	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	girl	there	by the grave; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location
2	weep	past	girl not said here			tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	can	one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	grave			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	girl		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sleep	past	girl not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rise	past	the sun			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 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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