The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 4

She was so unhappy that she felt as if the walls would stifle her, so she wandered out into the garden, and threw herself down on a grassy bank, under the shade of a lime tree.

Who acts: queen, walls · What happens: be, feel, stifle, wander out, throw down, shade · To what, where: queen, garden, grassy bank, lime tree

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 (queen, walls), 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 unhappy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 unhappy	advmod
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 felt	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 felt	nsubj
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	advcl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 stifle	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 stifle	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walls	det
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stifle	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stifle	aux
13	stifle	stifle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 felt	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stifle	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wandered	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 wandered	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wandered	nsubj
18	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 wandered	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wandered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wandered	parataxis
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 threw	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 threw	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 bank	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bank	det
30	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bank	amod
31	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shade	punct
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 shade	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shade	det
35	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 tree	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tree	det
38	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tree	compound
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shade	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	queen			unhappy property	tree rules
2	feel	past	queen				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stifle a condition, not said to happen	would	the walls	queen			vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	wander out	past	queen		the garden	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination
5	throw down	past		queen	a grassy bank		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on bank=Destination
6	shade			a lime tree			nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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