The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 38

Then she felt happy at last, and leaving the doll in peace to grow, waited, as she had been told, for a baby of her own to lay beside it.

Who acts: woman · What happens: feel, leave, grow, wait, tell, lay · To what, where: last, doll, peace, woman · 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 (woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 felt	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaving	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leaving	cc
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 felt	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doll	det
11	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 peace	case
13	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grow	mark
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 leaving	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
17	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 told	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 told	aux:pass
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 waited	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 baby	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 baby	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 baby	det
27	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 own	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 baby	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 lay	mark
32	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	advcl
33	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lay	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	woman		last	then	happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	leave	gerund	woman not said here	the doll	peace			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent doll=Theme in peace=Location
3	grow	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	past	woman not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	lay	to-infinitive			doll			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside it=Destination

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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