The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 77
Touch my heart, my little one,' she continued, dropping on her knees.
Who acts: you, Eglantine · What happens: touch, continue, drop · To what, where: heart, knees
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 (you, Eglantine), 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 | Touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Touch | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Touch | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Touch | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropping | punct |
| 13 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 continued | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 knees | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knees | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dropping | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | imperative | you not said here | my heart | my little one obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Eglantine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | Eglantine not said here | Eglantine's knees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on knee=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 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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