The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 6
But the girl shook her head and pushed the shining heap away from her.
Who acts: girl · What happens: shake, push, shine · To what, where: head, shining heap
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushed | cc |
| 8 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heap | det |
| 10 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 heap | amod |
| 11 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushed | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 pushed | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pushed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the girl | girl's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | push | past | the girl not said here | the shining heap | from girl; away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent heap=Theme from she=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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