The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 88

At first the Duchess clung to the saddle, but she was very soon thrown off and fell in a heap among the stones and thorns, and there they found her, shaken to a jelly, and collected what was left of her as if she had been a broken glass.

Who acts: Duchess, thorns · What happens: cling, throw off, fall, find, shake, collect · To what, where: duchess, heap, jelly, broken glass

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess, thorns), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 clung	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Duchess	det
4	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 clung	nsubj
5	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 saddle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 saddle	det
8	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thrown	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thrown	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thrown	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thrown	aux:pass
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 thrown	advmod
15	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 clung	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 thrown	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thrown	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 heap	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 heap	det
21	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 stones	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stones	det
24	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fell	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thorns	cc
26	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stones	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 found	expl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clung	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shaken	punct
34	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 found	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 jelly	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 jelly	det
37	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shaken	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 collected	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 collected	cc
40	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clung	parataxis
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 left	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 left	aux:pass
43	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 collected	ccomp
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 left	obl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 glass	mark
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 glass	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 glass	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 glass	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 glass	cop
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 glass	det
52	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 glass	amod
53	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 left	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cling	past	the Duchess			to the saddle	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to saddle=Co-Theme
2	throw off	past · passive		duchess		soon property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fall	past			a heap	among the stones and thorns	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in heap=Location
4	find	past	thorns = thorn	duchess	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	shake	participle	thorns = thorn not said here		a jelly		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to jelly=Trajectory
6	collect	past					tree rules
7	leave	past · passive				of duchess	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of she=Destination
8	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	is a	past · perfect	duchess	a broken glass			tree rules

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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