The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 64
Throwing back her head and snuffing the air, she broke into a run, leaping easily over the rivers and walls that stood in her way.
Who acts: head, rivers · What happens: throw back, snuff, break, leap, stand · To what, where: head, air, run, rivers, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, rivers), 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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 broke | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Throwing | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 snuffing | cc |
| 6 | snuffing | snuff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Throwing | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snuffing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throwing | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 run | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 run | det |
| 14 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaping | punct |
| 16 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 broke | advcl |
| 17 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 16 leaping | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 rivers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rivers | det |
| 20 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leaping | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walls | cc |
| 22 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rivers | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rivers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw back | gerund | head not said here | journey's head | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | snuff | gerund | head not said here | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | past | head | into a run result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into run=Result | ||||
| 4 | leap | gerund | head not said here | the rivers and walls | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | stand | past | the rivers and walls | head's way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
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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