The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 45
And when it was evening she climbed a little tree and wished that the night would not come, because she was afraid of the wild beasts.
Who acts: hunger, princess, night · What happens: be, climb, wish, not come · To what, where: evening, little tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunger, princess, night), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 climbed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 evening | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 evening | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | cop |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbed | nsubj |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wished | cc |
| 12 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 come | advmod |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wished | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 afraid | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 afraid | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 afraid | cop |
| 23 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 come | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 beasts | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 beasts | det |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beasts | amod |
| 27 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 afraid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hunger | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb | past | princess | a little tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | princess not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not come | would | the night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | princess | of the wild beasts; afraid property | tree rules |
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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