The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 134

I used to creep right under that stove.

Who acts: I · What happens: use, creep · To what, where: stove

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 creep	mark
4	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 stove	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creep	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	I						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	creep	to-infinitive	I not said here	that stove					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stove=Theme

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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