The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 90

At the sound of footsteps the pretty creature lifted her head, and when she saw her faithful companion approaching she bounded towards her, and rubbed her head on Eglantine's shoulder.

Who acts: pretty creature, creature, faithful companion · What happens: lift, see, approach, bound, rub · To what, where: head, sound, faithful companion, shoulder

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty creature, creature, faithful companion), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sound	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 footsteps	case
5	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sound	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	nsubj
9	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lifted	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 companion	nmod:poss
18	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 companion	amod
19	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
20	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 saw	xcomp
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bounded	nsubj
22	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 approaching	ccomp
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bounded	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rubbed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rubbed	cc
27	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lifted	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rubbed	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 shoulder	case
31	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 shoulder	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Eglantine	case
33	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rubbed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the pretty creature	creature's head	the sound of footsteps		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at sound=Destination
2	see	past	creature	creature's faithful companion			tree rules
3	approach	gerund	creature's faithful companion not said here				tree rules
4	bound	past	creature			towards mother	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination
5	rub	past	the pretty creature not said here	mother's head	Eglantine's shoulder		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on shoulder=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 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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