The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 97
Bellah took the net which the Groac’h held out, and, turning rapidly, flung it over the witch’s head.
Who acts: Bellah · What happens: take, hold out, turn, fling · To what, where: 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 (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 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 net | det |
| 4 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 held | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Groac’h | det |
| 7 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 held | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 net | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 held | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turning | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 14 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 13 turning | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flung | punct |
| 16 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flung | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 witch | det |
| 20 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 witch | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flung | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Bellah | the net | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold out | participle · passive | the net | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Bellah not said here | rapidly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fling | past | Bellah not said here | net | the witch's head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination |
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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