The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 110
Then she burst into tears, and placing a beautifully wrought box in his pocket she went her way.
Who acts: air · What happens: burst, place, go · To what, where: tears, wrought box, pocket, way
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 burst | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burst | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 placing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 placing | cc |
| 8 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 burst | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 10 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 11 wrought | advmod |
| 11 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 box | amod |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placing | obl | ||
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pocket | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | air | tears | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | gerund | air not said here | a wrought box | robber's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | air | air's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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