English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 25
So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there till she fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: cover up, lay, fall · To what, where: Woman
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 covered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 covered | nsubj |
| 3 | covered | cover | 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 covered | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 covered | compound:prt |
| 6 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 3 covered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 covered | conj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 fell | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | advcl |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover up | past | Woman | Woman | comfortably property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | Woman not said here | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Woman | asleep, fast 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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