English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 15
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company.
Who acts: waist · What happens: sit, reel, wish
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waist), 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 | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reeled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reeled | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 reeled | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reeled | nsubj |
| 9 | reeled | reel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 wished | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 company | case |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wished | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | waist | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reel | past | waist | still | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | waist | still | for company | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for company=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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