The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 9
And she flung herself into her friend's arms in a transport of delight.
Who acts: Eglantine · What happens: fling · To what, where: Eglantine, arms
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 flung | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 flung | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 friend | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flung | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 transport | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 transport | det |
| 12 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 delight | case |
| 14 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 transport | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Eglantine | Eglantine | Eglantine's friend's arms | in a transport of delight | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into arm=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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