The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 8
At last she went down into one of the cellars, but it was so dark that she fell down the steep stairs and was killed on the spot.
Who acts: Helena, fault · What happens: go down, be, fall down, kill · To what, where: last, steep stairs, spot
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, fault), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cellars | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cellars | det |
| 10 | cellars | cellar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dark | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 dark | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dark | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dark | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 dark | advmod |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 fell | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dark | advcl |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 stairs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stairs | det |
| 22 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stairs | amod |
| 23 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fell | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 killed | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 killed | aux:pass |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fell | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 killed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Helena | last | into one of the cellars; down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | fault | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | Helena | the steep stairs | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result | ||||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | Helena not said here | the spot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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