The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 102
But he thrust her aside, and flung himself at the feet of Desiree, to whom he poured out all his heart!
Who acts: Becasigue · What happens: thrust, fling, pour out · To what, where: woman, Becasigue, feet, heart
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becasigue), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thrust | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrust | nsubj |
| 3 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrust | obj |
| 5 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 3 thrust | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flung | cc |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrust | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 flung | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feet | det |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flung | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Desiree | case |
| 14 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whom | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 flung | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 poured | nsubj |
| 19 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 whom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 poured | compound:prt |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 heart | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 poured | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | Becasigue | woman | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | fling | past | Becasigue not said here | Becasigue | the feet of Desiree | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | pour out | past | Becasigue | Becasigue's heart | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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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