The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 10
She fell back, and with his helmet still on and his shield up, he set his foot on her throat.
Who acts: smallest, lion · What happens: fall back, shiel up, set · To what, where: foot, throat
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smallest, lion), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 on | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 on | cc |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 helmet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 on | obl |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 on | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shield | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shield | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shield | shiel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fell | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 shield | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 foot | nmod:poss |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 throat | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 throat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall back | past | smallest = small | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shiel up | participle | smallest = small not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set | past | lion | lion's foot | smallest's throat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on throat=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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