The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 72

Quickly she turned her head towards it, and at the same time put her hand up to her forehead, where, waving like a plume, was a donkey’s tail.

Who acts: Peppina · What happens: turn, put, hand up, wave, be · To what, where: head, hand forehead, tail

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 (Peppina), 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	Quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 forehead	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 forehead	compound
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 hand	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 forehead	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 forehead	nmod:poss
20	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 waving	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 waving	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 waving	punct
24	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 forehead	acl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 plume	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plume	det
27	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waving	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tail	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tail	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 donkey	det
31	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tail	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 donkey	case
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Peppina	Peppina's head	head		quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme towards it=Trajectory
2	put	past	Peppina not said here	Peppina's hand forehead		time		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent forehead=Goal
3	hand up	infinitive						vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wave	gerund					like a plume	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		a donkey's tail				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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