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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 1

With a turn of his hand the prince threw back the veil, and discovered the puffed-up, swollen face of Peppina, with the donkey’s tail twisted round her head.

Who acts: prince, tail · What happens: throw back, discover, puff up, twist · To what, where: veil, puffed swollen face, head

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, tail), 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

casedetoblcasenmod:possnmoddetnsubjadvmoddetobjpunctccconjdetamodpunctcompound:prtpunctamodobjcasenmodpunctmarkdetnmod:posscasensubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootWithADPaDETturnNOUNofADPhisPRONhandNOUNtheDETprinceNOUNthrewVERBbackADVtheDETveilNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdiscoveredVERBtheDETpuffedVERB-PUNCTupADP,PUNCTswollenADJfaceNOUNofADPPeppinaPROPN,PUNCTwithSCONJtheDETdonkeyNOUN’sPARTtailNOUNtwistedVERBroundADPherPRONheadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WithwithADP_3 turncase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 turndet
3turnturnNOUNNumber=Sing9 threwobl
4ofofADP_6 handcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 handnmod:poss
6handhandNOUNNumber=Sing3 turnnmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 princedet
8princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing9 threwnsubj
9threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10backbackADV_9 threwadvmod
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 veildet
12veilveilNOUNNumber=Sing9 threwobj
13,,PUNCT_15 discoveredpunct
14andandCCONJ_15 discoveredcc
15discovereddiscoverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 threwconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 facedet
17puffedpuffVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 faceamod
18--PUNCT_19 uppunct
19upupADP_17 puffedcompound:prt
20,,PUNCT_17 puffedpunct
21swollenswollenADJDegree=Pos22 faceamod
22facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing15 discoveredobj
23ofofADP_24 Peppinacase
24PeppinaPeppinaPROPNNumber=Sing22 facenmod
25,,PUNCT_31 twistedpunct
26withwithSCONJ_31 twistedmark
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 donkeydet
28donkeydonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing30 tailnmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 donkeycase
30tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing31 twistednsubj
31twistedtwistVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 discoveredconj
32roundroundADP_34 headcase
33herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 headnmod:poss
34headheadNOUNNumber=Sing31 twistedobl
35..PUNCT_9 threwpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1throw backpastthe princethe veilwith a turn of his handvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
2discoverpastthe prince not said herethe puffed swollen face of Peppinavn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic
3puff upparticiplevn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4twistpastthe donkey's tailtail's headvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round head=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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