The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 190
Michael flung the contents of the cup behind him, sprang over the table, and fell at Lina’s feet.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: fling, spring, fall · To what, where: contents, table, feet
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flung | nsubj |
| 2 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 contents | det |
| 4 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 flung | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cup | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contents | nmod |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cup | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flung | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flung | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 19 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Lina | case |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | Michael | the contents of the cup behind boy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | Michael not said here | the table | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over table=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Michael not said here | Lina's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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