The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 30
With these words he lifted his hand in blessing and vanished.
Who acts: trouble · What happens: lift, vanish · To what, where: hand, blessing
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lifted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 blessing | case |
| 9 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vanished | cc |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | trouble | trouble's hand | blessing | with this words | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in blessing=Destination | ||
| 2 | vanish | past | trouble not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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