The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 92
She can’t run away from us there, whilst we are preparing the guest-chamber under the marsh where she shall live.’
Who acts: girl, we · What happens: not run away, prepare, live · To what, where: guest chamber, marsh
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 (girl, we), 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 | 4 run | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 run | obl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 preparing | punct |
| 10 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 13 preparing | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 preparing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 preparing | aux |
| 13 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 run | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chamber | det |
| 15 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chamber | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 guest | punct |
| 17 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 preparing | obj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 marsh | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 marsh | det |
| 20 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 preparing | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 live | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 live | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | aux |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 marsh | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run away | can | girl | there | from us; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from we=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | prepare | present · progressive | we | the guest chamber | the marsh | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Patient | |||
| 3 | live | shall | girl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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