The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 68
The girl trembled and jumped up, then, taking the feather, the pin, and the box, she held them out to the old woman.
Who acts: girl · What happens: tremble, jump up, take, hold out · To what, where: box, feather, eyes
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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | nsubj |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 jumped | cc |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 jumped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 taking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 jumped | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feather | det |
| 12 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pin | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pin | det |
| 15 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feather | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 box | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 box | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 box | det |
| 19 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trembled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | nsubj |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 held | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 woman | amod |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | the girl | the box | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | the girl not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the girl not said here | the feather and the pin | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold out | past | girl | eyes = eye | to the old woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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