The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 105
She tore herself away and stepped on deck.
Who acts: princess · What happens: tore away, step · To what, where: princess, deck
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | 2 tore | nsubj |
| 2 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 tore | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 tore | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stepped | cc |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tore | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 deck | case |
| 8 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore away | past | princess | princess | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | step | participle | princess not said here | deck | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=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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