The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 7
With that she closed her eyes for the last time, and when she was carried to her grave the girl walked behind her coffin weeping bitterly, and paid her all the last honours.
Who acts: godmother, girl, coffin · What happens: close, carry, grave, walk, weep, pay · To what, where: eyes, godmother, coffin
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, girl, coffin), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 closed | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 closed | nsubj |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 closed | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 carried | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | aux:pass |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 closed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 19 | grave | grave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 carried | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grave | parataxis |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 coffin | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 25 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | obl |
| 26 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 coffin | acl |
| 27 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 26 weeping | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 paid | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 paid | cc |
| 30 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 paid | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 honours | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 honours | det |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 honours | amod |
| 35 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 paid | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | godmother | godmother's eyes | time | with that | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with that=Theme | ||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | godmother | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary her=Value | |||||
| 3 | grave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past | the girl | godmother's coffin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind coffin=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | godmother's coffin not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | pay | past | godmother not said here | godmother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient honour=Asset |
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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