The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 82
One night, when she was lying in her pretty little bed, an old toad crept in through a broken pane in the window.
Who acts: woman, old toad · What happens: lie, creep in, break · To what, where: pretty little bed, broken pane
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, old toad), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 lying | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lying | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lying | aux |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 crept | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bed | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bed | amod |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lying | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 toad | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 toad | amod |
| 16 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crept | nsubj |
| 17 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 crept | advmod |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 pane | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pane | det |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pane | amod |
| 22 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crept | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pane | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | woman | woman's pretty little bed | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 2 | creep in | past | a old toad | a broken pane in the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pane=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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