The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 80

She rose with a shiver, and tried to call to her kids, but the voice died away in her throat, and strong arms seemed to hold her.

Who acts: mist, voice, strong arms · What happens: rise, try, call, die away, seem, hold · To what, where: kids, mist · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mist, voice, strong arms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:1890): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 shiver	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shiver	det
5	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 call	mark
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 kids	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 kids	nmod:poss
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 call	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 died	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 died	advmod
20	in	in	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	18 died	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seemed	cc
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 arms	amod
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hold	mark
29	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hold	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rise	past	mist			with a shiver	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try	past	mist not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	mist not said here		mist's kids		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kid=Recipient
4	die away	past	the voice			in mist's throat; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in throat=Attribute
5	seem	past	strong arms				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	hold	to-infinitive	strong arms not said here	mist			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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