The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 73
As she sat with her face hidden and her body shaken by sobs, Sigurd in his tree heard her and was moved to pity.
Who acts: Laufer, body · What happens: sit, shake, hear, move, pity · To what, where: body, Laufer
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laufer, body), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 body | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sobs | case |
| 13 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shaken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sigurd | punct |
| 15 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 body | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tree | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sigurd | nmod |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 moved | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 moved | aux:pass |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 heard | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pity | mark |
| 25 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 moved | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Laufer | with Laufer's face; hidden property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shake | participle | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree not said here | by sobs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sob=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree | Laufer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | move | past · passive | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pity | to-infinitive | Laufer's body and Sigurd in Sigurd's tree not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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