The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 51
Directly the ogress returned home she flung herself with all her weight on the bed, and the whole cave quivered under her.
Who acts: ogress, whole cave · What happens: return, fling, quiver · To what, where: ogress, bed
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, whole cave), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ogress | det |
| 3 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flung | nsubj |
| 7 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 flung | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 weight | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 weight | det:predet |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 weight | nmod:poss |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flung | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flung | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 quivered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 quivered | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cave | amod |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quivered | nsubj |
| 21 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 quivered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the ogress | directly, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | ogress | ogress | the bed | with ogress's weight | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on bed=Destination | ||
| 3 | quiver | participle | the whole cave | under ogress | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location |
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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