The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 69
When she came to the surface screaming and struggling, the vengeful cat seized her again and rolled her in the ash-heap on the floor; then when she rose, dirty, blinded, and disgusting to behold, he thrust her from the door, saying: “Begone, and when you meet a braying ass be careful to turn your head towards it.”
Who acts: Lizina, vengeful cat, father, you · What happens: come, scream, struggle, seize, roll, rise · To what, where: surface, Lizina, ash heap, dirty, door, Begone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lizina, vengeful cat, father, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 surface | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surface | det |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struggling | cc |
| 9 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 screaming | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 12 | vengeful | vengeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cat | amod |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seized | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 seized | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rolled | cc |
| 18 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rolled | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 heap | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heap | det |
| 22 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heap | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ash | punct |
| 24 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rolled | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heap | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 rose | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 rose | advmod |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 rose | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rose | nsubj |
| 32 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dirty | punct |
| 34 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 rose | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 blinded | punct |
| 36 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 dirty | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 disgusting | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 disgusting | cc |
| 39 | disgusting | disgusting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 rose | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 behold | case |
| 41 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 39 disgusting | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 thrust | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 thrust | nsubj |
| 44 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 thrust | obj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 door | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 door | det |
| 48 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thrust | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 saying | punct |
| 50 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 thrust | advcl |
| 51 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 53 Begone | punct |
| 52 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 Begone | punct |
| 53 | Begone | Begone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 saying | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 careful | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 careful | cc |
| 56 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 58 meet | mark |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 58 meet | nsubj |
| 58 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 careful | advcl |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 ass | det |
| 60 | braying | bray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 61 ass | amod |
| 61 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 meet | obj |
| 62 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 63 careful | cop |
| 63 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seized | conj |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 turn | mark |
| 65 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 careful | xcomp |
| 66 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 head | nmod:poss |
| 67 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 turn | obj |
| 68 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 69 it | case |
| 69 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 turn | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 71 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Lizina | the surface | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | Lizina not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | struggle | gerund | Lizina not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seize | past | the vengeful cat | Lizina | again | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | roll | past | the vengeful cat not said here | Lizina | the ash heap on the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in heap=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | rise | past | Lizina | dirty | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dirty=Theme | |||
| 7 | blind | participle | Lizina not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | thrust | past | father | Lizina | the door | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from door=Initial_Location | |||
| 9 | say speech: assert | gerund | father not said here | Begone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent begone=Topic | ||||
| 10 | meet in a quote | present | you | a braying ass | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Co-Agent | ||||
| 11 | bray in a quote | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 12 | is in a quote | infinitive | the vengeful cat not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 13 | turn in a quote | to-infinitive | the vengeful cat not said here | your head | head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme towards it=Trajectory |
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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