The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 105

Bellah felt as if fingers were tightening round her throat, but she managed to cry:

Who acts: Bellah, fingers · What happens: feel, tighten, manage, cry

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah, fingers), 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	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 tightening	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 tightening	mark
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tightening	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tightening	aux
7	tightening	tighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 throat	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 throat	nmod:poss
10	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tightening	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 managed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 managed	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 managed	nsubj
14	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cry	mark
16	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 managed	xcomp
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Bellah		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tighten	past · progressive	fingers	round Bellah's throat	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	manage	past	Bellah		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Bellah not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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