The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 176
When Elsa recovered her senses, she found herself lying under a bush in her own proper form.
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: recover, find, lie, form · To what, where: senses, Elsa, bush
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 senses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 recovered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recovered | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 bush | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bush | det |
| 13 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 form | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 form | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 form | amod |
| 17 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 form | amod |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | Elsa | Elsa's senses | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Elsa | Elsa | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Elsa not said here | a bush | in Elsa's own proper form | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location | |||
| 4 | form | Elsa | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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