The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 25
Wild with fear her legs trembled under her, when suddenly she bethought herself of her necklace.
Who acts: Wild legs, Tephany · What happens: tremble, bethink · To what, where: Tephany
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild legs, Tephany), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legs | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 fear | case |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 legs | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 legs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trembled | nsubj |
| 6 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trembled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bethought | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 bethought | advmod |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 bethought | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bethought | nsubj |
| 13 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trembled | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 bethought | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 necklace | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bethought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Tephany's Wild legs | under Tephany | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location | ||||
| 2 | bethink | past | Tephany | Tephany | of Tephany's necklace; suddenly property | tree rules |
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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