The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 76
She first beat Lizina unmercifully with the broom, then she took her to the mouth of the well and lowered her into it, leaving her at the bottom weeping and crying for help.
Who acts: Peppina · What happens: beat, take, lower, leave, cry · To what, where: Lizina, mouth, Peppina, well, bottom weeping
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 beat | advmod |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obj |
| 5 | unmercifully | unmercifully | ADV | _ | 3 beat | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 broom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 broom | det |
| 8 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 took | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beat | parataxis |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mouth | det |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 well | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 well | det |
| 19 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouth | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lowered | cc |
| 21 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lowered | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lowered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leaving | punct |
| 26 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 lowered | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 leaving | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 weeping | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 weeping | det |
| 30 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 weeping | compound |
| 31 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaving | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 crying | cc |
| 33 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 leaving | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 help | case |
| 35 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crying | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | Peppina | Lizina | with the broom; first, unmercifully property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lizina=Patient with broom=Instrument | |||
| 2 | take | past | Peppina | Lizina | the mouth of the well | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to mouth=Destination | ||
| 3 | lower | past | Peppina not said here | Peppina | well | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 4 | leave | gerund | Peppina not said here | Peppina | the bottom weeping | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme at weeping=Location | |||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | Peppina not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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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