The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 107
With a little shriek of joy Tephany took the necklace, and snapping the clasp ran to the mirror which hung in the corner.
Who acts: Tephany, snapping, mirror · What happens: take, snap, run, hang, shriek · To what, where: necklace, clasp, mirror, corner, joy
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 (Tephany, snapping, mirror), 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 | _ | 4 shriek | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shriek | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shriek | amod |
| 4 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shriek | nmod |
| 7 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 necklace | det |
| 10 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 13 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ran | csubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clasp | det |
| 15 | clasp | clasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snapping | obj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mirror | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mirror | det |
| 19 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hung | nsubj |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mirror | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 corner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 corner | det |
| 24 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Tephany | the necklace | with a little shriek of joy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme | |||
| 2 | snap | gerund | the clasp | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clasp=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | snapping | the mirror | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mirror=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | the mirror | the corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 5 | shriek | joy | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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