The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 98

And he was about to turn his sword on himself, when the true Maria sprung out from under the bed, and flung herself into his arms.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, turn, spring out, fling · To what, where: sword, true Maria, bed, Maria, arms

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 (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 about	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sword	nmod:poss
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprung	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 sprung	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Maria	det
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Maria	amod
15	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sprung	obl:unmarked
16	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 turn	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 sprung	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 bed	case
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sprung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flung	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flung	cc
24	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	conj
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 flung	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 arms	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flung	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			about property	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's sword		on man	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	spring out	participle	man not said here	the true Maria	the bed		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory
4	fling	past	man not said here	Maria	man's arms		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into arm=Destination

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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