The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 28
Panting for breath, she entered their room, and flung herself down on the floor.
Who acts: fancy · What happens: pant, enter, fling down · To what, where: room, fancy, floor
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 (fancy), 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 | Panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 entered | advcl |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 breath | case |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Panting | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Panting | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 flung | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 flung | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | gerund | fancy not said here | for breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | fancy | prince's room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fling down | past | fancy not said here | fancy | the floor | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on floor=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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