The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 68
She herself stayed behind in a peasant’s hut, so that father and son might meet alone.
Who acts: maiden, father · What happens: stay, meet · To what, where: hut
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, father), 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 | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hut | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 peasant | case |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meet | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 meet | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 son | cc |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | conj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 meet | aux |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 meet | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | maiden | a peasant's hut | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 2 | meet | might | father and son | alone property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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