The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 93
Lineik jumped up quickly, and tried to get past him back to her tree; but the folds of the silk were wrapped round her, and she would have fallen had not the prince caught her.
Who acts: Lineik, prince · What happens: jump up, try, get, wrap, fall, have · To what, where: folds, Lineik
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 (Lineik, prince), 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 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tree | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrapped | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 wrapped | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 folds | det |
| 19 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 silk | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 silk | det |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 folds | nmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 24 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jumped | conj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wrapped | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fallen | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fallen | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fallen | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fallen | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fallen | aux |
| 32 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 jumped | conj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 fallen | xcomp |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 caught | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 prince | det |
| 36 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 caught | nsubj |
| 37 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 had | advcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 caught | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Lineik | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Lineik not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lineik not said here | past Prince | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wrap | past · passive | the folds of the silk | round Lineik | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | would · perfect | Lineik | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | participle | Lineik not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not catch | past | the prince | Lineik | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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