The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 38

Tephany did not in the least understand what she meant, but ran back to the farm as fast as she could, and began to fumble joyfully in her right-hand pocket.

Who acts: Tephany · What happens: not understand, mean, run back, begin, fumble · To what, where: hand pocket

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), 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	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 understand	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 understand	advmod
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 understand	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 least	det
6	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 understand	nsubj
7	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 understand	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meant	nsubj
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understand	parataxis
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 farm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farm	det
17	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 ran	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fast	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ran	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fumble	mark
27	fumble	fumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	27 fumble	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	34 pocket	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pocket	nmod:poss
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hand	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 right	punct
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pocket	compound
34	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fumble	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	Tephany			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	mean	past	Tephany			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	run back	past			to the farm result; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to farm=Result
4	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fumble	to-infinitive		Tephany's hand pocket	joyfully property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location

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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