The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 172
But she sat as straight as a tree, and did not move or bend the least bit.
Who acts: wife · What happens: sit, not move, bend · To what, where: least bit
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 straight | advmod |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 straight | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 move | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 move | advmod |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 bend | cc |
| 15 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 bit | amod |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bend | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | wife | straight property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not move | past · do-support | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bend | infinitive | the least bit | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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