The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 5
And by the well slept the Fairy of the Dawn--the Fairy of the Dawn--herself!
What happens: sleep · To what, where: Fairy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 slept | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 well | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 well | det |
| 4 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Dawn | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dawn | det |
| 10 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fairy | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fairy | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 13 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fairy | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Dawn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dawn | det |
| 16 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fairy | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 herself | punct |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 slept | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the Fairy of the Dawn and the Fairy of the Dawn | by the well; Fairy obl | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme |
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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