The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 90
Suddenly she startled back with a scream, for a small mouse had sprung from the inside of the tureen, and had nearly hit her in the eye.
Who acts: woman · What happens: startle back, spring, hit · To what, where: small mouse, inside, woman, eye
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 startled | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 startled | nsubj |
| 3 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 startled | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 scream | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scream | det |
| 7 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 startled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprung | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 sprung | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mouse | amod |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sprung | aux |
| 14 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 startled | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 inside | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 inside | det |
| 17 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprung | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tureen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tureen | det |
| 20 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inside | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hit | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hit | cc |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hit | aux |
| 24 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 25 hit | advmod |
| 25 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 startled | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hit | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 eye | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eye | det |
| 29 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hit | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle back | past | woman | with a scream; suddenly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spring | past · perfect · passive | a small mouse | the inside of the tureen | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | past · perfect | woman | the eye | nearly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in eye=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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