The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 91
She overtook her just as the poor girl, overcome by fatigue, had lain down to rest in a cave which the stone had formed itself into to shelter her.
Who acts: Lagree, stone · What happens: overtake, overcome, lie down, rest, form, shelter · To what, where: poor girl, cave, Lagree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lagree, stone), 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 overtook | nsubj |
| 2 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 girl | nmod:poss |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 girl | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 overtook | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overcome | punct |
| 10 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 girl | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 fatigue | case |
| 12 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overcome | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lain | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lain | aux |
| 15 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 overtook | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 lain | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lain | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cave | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cave | det |
| 21 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 formed | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 formed | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 formed | aux |
| 26 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 cave | acl:relcl |
| 27 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 formed | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 shelter | case |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 shelter | mark |
| 30 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 formed | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 shelter | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | Lagree | Lagree's poor girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overcome | participle | Lagree's poor girl not said here | by fatigue | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | lie down | past · perfect | Lagree not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | Lagree not said here | a cave | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 5 | form | past · perfect | the stone | a cave | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | shelter | to-infinitive | the stone not said here | Lagree | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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