The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 88
He looked at her fondly, and took her hand, which she tried to draw away, crying:
Who acts: man, hand · What happens: look, take, try, draw away, cry · To what, where: hand
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 (man, hand), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 fondly | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fondly | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fondly | fondly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tried | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 draw | mark |
| 16 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 draw | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crying | punct |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | man | at Dame's fondly | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fondly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Dame's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | past | Dame's hand | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | draw away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dame's hand not said here | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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