The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 49
Instantly she threw the steel net over his head, and the eyes of a little green frog peeped through the meshes.
Who acts: Groac’h, eyes · What happens: throw, peep · To what, where: steel net, head
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 (Groac’h, eyes), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 net | det |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 net | compound |
| 6 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 peeped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 peeped | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 peeped | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 frog | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 frog | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 frog | amod |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 frog | amod |
| 18 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod |
| 19 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 threw | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 meshes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meshes | det |
| 22 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 peeped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Groac’h = groac'h | the steel net | Houarn's head | instantly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme over head=Destination | ||
| 2 | peep | participle | the eyes of a little green frog | through the meshes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through mesh=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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