The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 25
She thought she should have died for fear, and the key, which she pulled out of the lock, fell out of her hand.
Who acts: floor, key · What happens: think, die, pull out, fall · To what, where: key, lock, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, key), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 died | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 died | aux |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pulled | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 pulled | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | nsubj |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 key | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 lock | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lock | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lock | det |
| 20 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | floor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | should · perfect | floor | for fear | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for fear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull out | past | floor | the key | the lock | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fall | past | the key | floor's hand | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location |
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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