The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 46
And she seized him like a fury, and tried to scratch out his eyes.
Who acts: Wretch · What happens: seize, try, scratch out · To what, where: word, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretch), 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 | _ | 3 seized | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 fury | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fury | det |
| 7 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 scratch | mark |
| 12 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 scratch | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scratch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Wretch | word | like a fury | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | Wretch not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | scratch out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wretch not said here | word's eyes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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