The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 35
And seizing her in his strong paws he plunged her into the liquid gold.
Who acts: father · What happens: seize, plunge · To what, where: maid, strong paws, liquid gold
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 plunged | cc |
| 2 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 plunged | csubj |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seizing | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 paws | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 paws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paws | amod |
| 7 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seizing | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 plunged | nsubj |
| 9 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 plunged | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gold | det |
| 13 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gold | amod |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | maid | father's strong paws | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunge | past | father | maid | the liquid gold | tree rules |
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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