The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 105
With a great effort Julia checked her sobs, and rose to her feet.
Who acts: Julia, angel · What happens: check, rise, sob · To what, where: sobs, feet
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Julia, angel), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 effort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 effort | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 effort | amod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 checked | obl |
| 5 | Julia | Julia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 checked | nsubj |
| 6 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sobs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 checked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rose | cc |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 checked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rose | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | Julia | angel's sobs | with a great effort | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sob=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise | past | Julia not said here | angel's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sob | angel | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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