The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 14
She next passed on to the bedside of the princess, who still lay asleep grasping the withered flowers.
Who acts: woman, princess · What happens: pass on, lie, grasp, wither · To what, where: bedside, withered flowers
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 (woman, princess), 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 | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bedside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bedside | det |
| 7 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bedside | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lay | xcomp |
| 16 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lay | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flowers | det |
| 18 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grasping | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | past | woman | the bedside of the princess | next property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bedside=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the princess | still | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | grasp | gerund | the princess not said here | the withered flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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