The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 46
Then the people of the town cut off her hand, and turned her into the forest.
Who acts: people · What happens: cut off, turn · To what, where: hand, girl, forest
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | 7 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | the people of the town | girl's hand | then | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the people of the town not said here | girl | the forest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme into forest=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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