The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 146
She drew her veil a little closer, and stole across on tip-toe and caught hold of the corner of the letter.
Who acts: corner · What happens: draw, steal, catch, hold · To what, where: veil, tip toe, hold, corner
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 veil | nmod:poss |
| 4 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 closer | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 drew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stole | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stole | cc |
| 10 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | parataxis |
| 11 | across | across | ADV | _ | 10 stole | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 toe | case |
| 13 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 toe | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tip | punct |
| 15 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stole | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stole | conj |
| 18 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hold | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 letter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 letter | det |
| 24 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 corner | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | corner | corner's veil | close property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | |||
| 2 | steal | past | tip toe | across property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Location | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | hold of the corner of the letter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hold | the corner of the letter | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 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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