The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 68

Then Sunlight told the princess what she was to do, and the girl stepped softly over the sleeping nun, and crept like a cat along the dark aisle, feeling the wall with her fingers, lest she should fall over something and ruin it all by a noise.

Who acts: Sunlight, princess, girl · What happens: tell, be, step, sleep, creep, feel · To what, where: princess, dark aisle, wall, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunlight, princess, 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 told	advmod
2	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 princess	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stepped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stepped	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stepped	nsubj
15	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
16	softly	softly	ADV	_	15 stepped	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	20 nun	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nun	det
19	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 nun	amod
20	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stepped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crept	cc
23	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 cat	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crept	obl
27	along	along	ADP	_	30 aisle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 aisle	det
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 aisle	amod
30	aisle	aisle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crept	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feeling	punct
32	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 crept	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wall	det
34	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feeling	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 fingers	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fingers	nmod:poss
37	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 feeling	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fall	punct
39	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	42 fall	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fall	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 fall	aux
42	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 crept	parataxis
43	over	over	ADP	_	44 something	case
44	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 fall	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ruin	cc
46	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 fall	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 ruin	obj
48	all	all	ADV	_	51 noise	advmod
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 noise	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 noise	det
51	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ruin	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Sunlight		the princess		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
2	is	past	princess					do property	tree rules
3	step	past	the girl					over the sleeping nun; softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over nun=Trajectory
4	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	creep	past	Sunlight not said here			the dark aisle		like a cat	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along aisle=Trajectory
6	feel	gerund	Sunlight not said here	the wall				with princess's fingers	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme
7	fall	should	princess			something			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over something=Location
8	ruin	infinitive	princess not said here	wall				by a noise	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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