The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 31
And when she reached the place where the sisters were lying, she stooped down and held a corner of the cloth up to the lantern.
Who acts: ogress, sisters · What happens: reach, lie, stoop down, hold up · To what, where: place, corner
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, sisters), 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 | _ | 14 stooped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stooped | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lying | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lying | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lying | aux |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stooped | nsubj |
| 14 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 stooped | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stooped | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 corner | det |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cloth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cloth | det |
| 22 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 corner | nmod |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 held | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 lantern | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lantern | det |
| 26 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | ogress | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the sisters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stoop down | past | ogress | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hold up | past | ogress not said here | a corner of the cloth | to the lantern | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot corner=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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