The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 119

She was just going to alight, when she suddenly remembered she had left her basket behind her.

Who acts: Dotterine · What happens: go, alight, remember, leave · To what, where: basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dotterine), 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 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 alight	mark
6	alight	alight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remembered	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 remembered	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remembered	nsubj
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 remembered	advmod
11	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 remembered	ccomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 basket	nmod:poss
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obj
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Dotterine			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	alight	to-infinitive	Dotterine not said here			tree rules
3	remember	past	Dotterine		suddenly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	leave	past · perfect	Dotterine	Dotterine's basket	behind girl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent basket=Theme behind she=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 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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