The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 20
And as she was very much tired she sat down inside a hollow tree and fell asleep.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, sit down, fall · To what, where: hollow tree
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 tired | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sat | advcl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sat | conj |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Princess | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Princess | a hollow tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Princess not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP 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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