The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 71
The crab's shell fell from her, she shrank into her usual size, and lost some of her fierce expression.
Who acts: shell, queen · What happens: fall, shrink, lose · To what, where: usual size, some
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell, queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shell | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 crab | case |
| 4 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrank | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shrank | nsubj |
| 10 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 size | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 size | nmod:poss |
| 13 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 size | amod |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shrank | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lost | cc |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 lost | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 expression | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 expression | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 expression | amod |
| 22 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 some | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the crab's shell | from queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | shrink | past | queen | into queen's usual size result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into size=Result | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | the crab's shell not said here | some | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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