The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 130

Then the Fairy threw her arms round the Princess’s neck, and nearly smothered her with kisses, saying:

Who acts: Fairy · What happens: throw, smother, say · To what, where: arms, fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 threw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	11 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 neck	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Princess	case
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smothered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smothered	cc
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 smothered	advmod
15	smothered	smother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smothered	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 kisses	case
18	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 smothered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 threw	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the Fairy	fairy's arms		then	round the Princess's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	smother	past	the Fairy not said here		fairy		with kisses; nearly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with kiss=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Fairy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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