The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 19
Then she commended herself to God, and went out and travelled the whole night till she came to a large forest.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: commend, go out, travel, come · To what, where: Princess, God, large forest
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 commended | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commended | nsubj |
| 3 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 commended | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 God | case |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commended | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commended | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 travelled | cc |
| 12 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelled | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 forest | amod |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commend | past | Princess | Princess | God | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||
| 2 | go out | past | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Princess | a large forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_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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