The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 41
At last she could not run any longer, and she sat down on a large stone.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: not run, sit down · To what, where: last, large stone
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 run | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 run | advmod |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stone | amod |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run | could | Gerda | last | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | Gerda | a large stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=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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