The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 60
It rubbed its head on her feet and then shook it so sadly that the girl cried for sympathy.
Who acts: lightning, girl · What happens: rub, shake, cry · To what, where: head, feet, lightning
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, girl), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rubbed | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rubbed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 shook | advmod |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rubbed | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shook | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sadly | advmod |
| 13 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 10 shook | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 cried | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shook | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sympathy | case |
| 19 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | lightning | lightning's head | Jamila's feet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | shake | past | lightning not said here | lightning | then | sadly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the girl | for sympathy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for sympathy=Recipient |
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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