The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 78

He caressed her tenderly, throwing himself at her feet and kissing her hands, and told her how uneasy he had been in her absence, and how impatient for her return, with an eloquence which charmed her.

Who acts: King, eloquence, Miranda · What happens: caress, throw, kiss, tell, be, charm · To what, where: tenderly, King, feet, hands, Miranda, absence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, eloquence, Miranda), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caressed	nsubj
2	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tenderly	nmod:poss
4	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caressed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 throwing	punct
6	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 caressed	advcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 throwing	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 throwing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kissing	cc
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 throwing	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kissing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caressed	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 uneasy	advmod
20	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	xcomp
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 absence	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 absence	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 absence	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 absence	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 absence	nmod:poss
26	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 impatient	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 impatient	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 impatient	advmod
30	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caressed	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 return	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 return	nmod:poss
33	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 impatient	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eloquence	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 eloquence	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eloquence	det
37	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 impatient	conj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 charmed	nsubj
39	charmed	charm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 eloquence	acl:relcl
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 charmed	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	caress	past	King	Miranda's tenderly				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenderly=Experiencer
2	throw	gerund	King not said here	King		Miranda's feet		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
3	kiss	gerund	King not said here	Miranda's hands				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	King not said here		Miranda		uneasy property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is	past · perfect	King			Miranda's absence		tree rules
6	charm	past	a eloquence	Miranda				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
7	return		Miranda					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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