The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 15
And so she sat for three days and three nights under the tree without moving.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: sit, move · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), 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 | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nights | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 nights | nummod |
| 10 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 days | conj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 moving | mark |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Helena | the tree | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 2 | move | gerund | Helena not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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