The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 66

She sat quite still on her chair, her hands clasped tightly together, as if she was forcing something back.

Who acts: two, hands · What happens: sit, clasp, force back · To what, where: chair, something

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 (two, hands), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 chair	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chair	nmod:poss
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clasped	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clasped	nsubj
11	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
12	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	13 together	advmod
13	together	together	ADV	_	11 clasped	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forcing	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 forcing	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 forcing	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forcing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 forcing	aux
19	forcing	force	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 clasped	advcl
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 forcing	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 forcing	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	two		two's chair	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
2	clasp	past	two's hands				together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	force back	past · progressive	two	something				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Recipient

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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