The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 25
His full memory came back on him, and he flung his arms round his wife’s neck, and both burst into tears.
Who acts: full memory, mind, both · What happens: come back, fling, burst · To what, where: arms, tears
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (full memory, mind, both), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 memory | nmod:poss |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 memory | amod |
| 3 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flung | nsubj |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flung | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 neck | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 burst | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 burst | cc |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 burst | nsubj |
| 22 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 tears | case |
| 24 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burst | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | mind's full memory | on mind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | mind | mind's arms | round mind's wife's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | burst | present | both | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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