The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 58

She felt half choked at the sight of their greediness, and wanted to rush from the hall, and though Barbaik caught her arm to prevent this, and said all sorts of tender words which she thought would make the girl weep the more, Tephany with a violent effort forced back her tears, and wiped her eyes.

Who acts: Tephany, Barbaik, tender words, sorts, girl, violent effort · What happens: feel, choke, want, rush, catch, prevent · To what, where: sight, hall, arm, this, girl, more · 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, Barbaik, tender words, sorts), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 choked	advmod
4	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sight	det
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 choked	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 greediness	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 greediness	nmod:poss
10	greediness	greediness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sight	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rush	mark
15	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rush	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caught	cc
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 caught	mark
22	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 caught	nsubj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arm	nmod:poss
25	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 prevent	mark
27	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 caught	advcl
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 prevent	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 sorts	det
33	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 make	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 words	case
35	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 words	compound
36	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sorts	nmod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 thought	nsubj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thought	nsubj
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 words	acl:relcl
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 make	aux
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 girl	det
43	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
44	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 make	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 more	det
46	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 weep	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Tephany	punct
48	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 make	obl
49	with	with	ADP	_	52 effort	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 effort	det
51	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 effort	amod
52	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obl
53	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 effort	acl
54	back	back	ADV	_	53 forced	advmod
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 tears	nmod:poss
56	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 forced	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 wiped	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 wiped	cc
59	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 eyes	nmod:poss
61	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 wiped	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Tephany				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	choke	participle	Tephany not said here		the sight of others's greediness	half property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	want	past	Tephany not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	rush not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tephany not said here		the hall		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hall=Trajectory
5	catch	past	Barbaik	Tephany's arm			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
6	prevent	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here	this			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	Tephany not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	think speech: other	past	tender words				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	make	would	all sorts of tender words	the girl		with a violent effort; Tephany obl	tree rules
10	weep	infinitive	the girl not said here	the more			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme
11	force back	participle	a violent effort not said here	Tephany's tears			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Recipient
12	wipe	past	Tephany not said here	Tephany's eyes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source
13	sight			others's greediness			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
14	sort			tender words			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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