The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 49
Barbaik, who also beheld this marvel, uttered a cry of astonishment, and threw herself on her knees to pick them up from the floor.
Who acts: Barbaik, astonishment · What happens: behold, utter, throw, pick up, cry · To what, where: marvel, cry, Barbaik, knees, floor
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 (Barbaik, astonishment), 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 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 beheld | advmod |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 marvel | det |
| 7 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beheld | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uttered | punct |
| 9 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cry | det |
| 11 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uttered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 astonishment | case |
| 13 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cry | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 threw | cc |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | parataxis |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 knees | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knees | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threw | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pick | mark |
| 22 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 threw | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pick | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 pick | compound:prt |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pick | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | Barbaik | this marvel | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | Barbaik not said here | a cry of astonishment | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Barbaik | Barbaik's knees | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on knee=Destination | ||||
| 4 | pick up | to-infinitive | knees = knee | the floor | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cry | astonishment | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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