The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 95

As she did so, the sprig of myrtle she carried touched the ground, and immediately a green and shady bower sprang up round her, in which she hoped to sleep in peace.

Who acts: Lagree, sprig, green bower · What happens: do, carry, touch, spring up, hope, sleep · To what, where: ground, peace

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, sprig, green bower), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	advcl
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sprig	det
7	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 myrtle	case
9	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprig	nmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sprang	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sprang	cc
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 sprang	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bower	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bower	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shady	cc
21	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 green	conj
22	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sprang	nsubj
23	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 sprang	compound:prt
25	round	round	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sprang	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hoped	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 hoped	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hoped	nsubj
31	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sprang	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sleep	mark
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hoped	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 peace	case
35	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sleep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lagree				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past	the sprig of myrtle				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	touch	past	the sprig of myrtle not said here	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
4	spring up	past	a green bower			round Lagree; immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hope	past	Lagree				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lagree not said here		peace		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=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 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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