The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 98
She sank down on the threshold, overcome with weariness, but in a moment was on her feet again, fumbling with the lock of the chest.
Who acts: woman · What happens: sink down, overcome, be, fumble · To what, where: threshold, feet
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 sank | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 threshold | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 threshold | det |
| 6 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sank | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 overcome | punct |
| 8 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 sank | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 weariness | case |
| 10 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overcome | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 feet | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 feet | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feet | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 feet | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sank | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 feet | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fumbling | punct |
| 22 | fumbling | fumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sank | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 lock | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lock | det |
| 25 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fumbling | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 chest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chest | det |
| 28 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lock | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | past | woman | the threshold | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | overcome | infinitive | with weariness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | past | woman's feet | again; moment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fumble | gerund | woman not said here | with the lock of the chest | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: 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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