The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 33
Seizing her niece by the arm, she pulled her sharply away, exclaiming:
Who acts: Barbaik · What happens: seize, pull, exclaim · To what, where: niece
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 (Barbaik), 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 | Seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 pulled | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 niece | nmod:poss |
| 3 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seizing | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arm | det |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seizing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seizing | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 away | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 pulled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exclaiming | punct |
| 14 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 pulled | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 exclaiming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | Barbaik not said here | Barbaik's niece | by the arm | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niece=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull | past | Barbaik | away property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | Barbaik not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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