The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, sentence 2
And the little old woman had squatted down the soft cushion of the Middle Bear.
What happens: squat · To what, where: little old woman
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 squatted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squatted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 squatted | aux |
| 7 | squatted | squat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 cushion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cushion | det |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cushion | amod |
| 11 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squatted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bear | det |
| 14 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bear | compound |
| 15 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cushion | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 squatted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squat | past · perfect · passive | the little old woman | down the soft cushion of the Middle Bear | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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