The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 26
With a violent effort she burst the clasp and flung it round the neck of a pig which was grunting in a ditch, and as she did so she heard the footsteps cease from pursuing her and run after the pig, for her charm had vanished.
Who acts: Tephany, pig, footsteps, charm · What happens: burst, fling, grunt, do, hear, cease · To what, where: clasp, ditch, Tephany · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tephany, pig, footsteps, charm), 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 effort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 effort | det |
| 3 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 effort | amod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burst | nsubj |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clasp | det |
| 8 | clasp | clasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burst | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flung | cc |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burst | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flung | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neck | det |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pig | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pig | det |
| 17 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neck | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 grunting | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grunting | aux |
| 20 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pig | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ditch | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ditch | det |
| 23 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grunting | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 heard | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 heard | cc |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 did | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 heard | advcl |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 did | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 heard | nsubj |
| 31 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burst | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 footsteps | det |
| 33 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 cease | nsubj |
| 34 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 heard | ccomp |
| 35 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 36 pursuing | mark |
| 36 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 cease | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pursuing | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 run | cc |
| 39 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 pursuing | conj |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 pig | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pig | det |
| 42 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 run | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 vanished | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 48 vanished | mark |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 charm | nmod:poss |
| 46 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 vanished | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 vanished | aux |
| 48 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 run | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | Tephany | the clasp | with a violent effort | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent clasp=Patient with effort=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fling | past | Tephany not said here | clasp | round the neck of a pig | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | grunt | past · progressive | a pig | a ditch | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Tephany | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hear | past | Tephany | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | cease | present | the footsteps | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | pursue | gerund | the footsteps not said here | Tephany | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | run | present | the footsteps not said here | after the pig | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | vanish | past · perfect | Tephany's charm | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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