The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 71
Then a sudden thought startled her, and she felt for her keys.
Who acts: sudden thought, Wretch · What happens: startle, feel · To what, where: Wretch
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 (sudden thought, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 startled | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 3 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | amod |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 startled | nsubj |
| 5 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 startled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 startled | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 keys | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 keys | nmod:poss |
| 13 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past | a sudden thought | Wretch | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Wretch | for Wretch's keys | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for key=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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