The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 95

The good woman flung up her hands in despair when she beheld the contents of the cradle.

Who acts: good woman, woman · What happens: fling up, behold · To what, where: hands, despair, contents

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flung	compound:prt
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flung	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 despair	case
9	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 beheld	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beheld	nsubj
12	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 contents	det
14	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 beheld	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cradle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cradle	det
17	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contents	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling up	past	the good woman	woman's hands		despair			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in despair=Destination
2	behold	past	woman	the contents of the cradle					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contents=Stimulus

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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