The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 112
Torn and battered was she, as if she had passed through many dangers, yet music of a wondrous sweetness poured forth from within.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: tear, batter, be, pass, pour · To what, where: daughter, many dangers, music
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | Torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 battered | cc |
| 3 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Torn | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 she | cop |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 battered | obl:agent |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Torn | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 dangers | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dangers | amod |
| 14 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 poured | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 poured | cc |
| 17 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sweetness | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sweetness | det |
| 20 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sweetness | amod |
| 21 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 music | nmod |
| 22 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Torn | conj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 poured | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 poured | obl |
| 25 | within | within | ADP | _ | 24 from | fixed |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | batter | participle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | daughter | many dangers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through danger=Location | ||||
| 5 | pour | participle · passive | music of a wondrous sweetness | forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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