The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 33

She said nothing, but let her arms fall backwards, and suddenly bending herself forward, she slipped out of the coat, leaving it in her husband’s hands.

Who acts: wife, arms · What happens: say, let, fall, bend, slip out, leave · To what, where: nothing, wife, coat, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, arms), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fall	nsubj
9	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	parataxis
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bending	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bending	cc
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 bending	advmod
14	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 bending	obj
16	forward	forward	ADV	_	14 bending	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slipped	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 slipped	nsubj
19	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 coat	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 coat	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coat	det
23	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slipped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaving	punct
25	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 slipped	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leaving	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 hands	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 husband	nmod:poss
29	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hands	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 husband	case
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaving	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife	nothing			tree rules
2	let	infinitive		wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	fall	present	arms			backwards property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bend	gerund	wife not said here	wife		forward, suddenly property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent herself=Material
5	slip out	past	wife	the coat			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
6	leave	gerund	wife not said here	coat	wife's husband's hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in 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 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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