The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 101
Then, flinging the feather from her hair, she put her head on her hands, and sobbed passionately.
Who acts: Aziliez · What happens: fling, put, sob · To what, where: feather, hair, head, hands
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aziliez), 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 flinging | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 put | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feather | det |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flinging | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feather | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flinging | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sobbed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sobbed | cc |
| 19 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 put | conj |
| 20 | passionately | passionately | ADV | _ | 19 sobbed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | gerund | Aziliez not said here | the feather | Aziliez's hair | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from hair=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | put | past | Aziliez | Aziliez's head | Aziliez's hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | sob | participle | Aziliez not said here | passionately property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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