The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 54
With a shriek she sprang from her seat, and the eyes of the spectators were turned towards her.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: spring, turn · To what, where: seat, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | _ | 3 shriek | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shriek | det |
| 3 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 seat | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 seat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spectators | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spectators | det |
| 15 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | aux:pass |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sprang | conj |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | daughter | daughter's seat | with a shriek | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | the eyes of the spectators | towards daughter | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme towards she=Trajectory |
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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