The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 53

Her knees were trembling under her, but she ran as fast as she could to the cross roads, where she drove her stick into the ground, murmuring as she did so a verse her mother had taught her:

Who acts: knees, Bellah · What happens: tremble, run, drive, murmur, do, teach · To what, where: stick, ground, verse, Bellah · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (knees, Bellah), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 knees	nmod:poss
2	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trembling	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trembling	aux
4	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trembling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trembling	conj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ran	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 could	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 could	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fast	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 roads	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roads	det
18	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roads	compound
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 could	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drove	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 drove	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drove	nsubj
23	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 roads	acl:relcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 stick	nmod:poss
25	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drove	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drove	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 murmuring	punct
30	murmuring	murmur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ran	advcl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 did	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 murmuring	ccomp
34	so	so	ADV	_	40 taught	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 verse	det
36	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 taught	nsubj:pass
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 taught	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 taught	aux
40	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 did	advcl
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 taught	obj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 trembling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · progressive	Bellah's knees				under Bellah	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location
2	run	past	Bellah				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	Bellah	Bellah's stick		the ground		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into ground=Trajectory
4	murmur speech: other	gerund	Bellah not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	past	Bellah					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		a verse	Bellah			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic

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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