The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 177
What had befallen her, and how she got there, lay behind her like a bad dream.
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: befall, get, lie · To what, where: Elsa
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 befallen | aux |
| 3 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 befallen | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 got | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | advcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 got | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 befallen | parataxis |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 dream | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dream | det |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dream | amod |
| 18 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 befallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past · perfect · passive | Elsa | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Elsa | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | behind Elsa; like a bad dream | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent 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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