The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 12
Then she crept back to her own bed and fell fast asleep.
Who acts: girl · What happens: creep back, fall · To what, where: own bed
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 crept | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bed | amod |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep back | past | girl | girl's own bed | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination | |||
| 2 | fall | past | girl not said here | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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