The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 107

The church was empty, but up in front of the altar lay the princess, white and red, like a human being, but sobbing and crying, and shaking with cold in her white shroud.

Who acts: church, front, sobbing · What happens: be, lie, sob, cry, shake · To what, where: princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, front, sobbing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 church	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 empty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lay	cc
7	up	up	ADV	_	9 front	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 altar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 altar	det
12	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 white	punct
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 princess	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 red	cc
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 white	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shroud	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	38 shroud	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 shroud	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shroud	amod
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 shroud	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shroud	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 shroud	cc
27	sobbing	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 shroud	csubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crying	cc
29	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sobbing	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shaking	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shaking	cc
32	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 shroud	csubj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 cold	case
34	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shaking	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 shroud	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 shroud	nmod:poss
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shroud	amod
38	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the church		empty property	tree rules
2	lie	past	front of the altar	the princess		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme
3	sob	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shake	gerund			with cold	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with cold=Co-Patient
6	is	gerund	sobbing		like princess's human white shroud	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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