The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 54

She shrieked and threw herself backwards, and Gon, who had been curled up on a stool at her feet, understood her terror, and with one bound seized the snake by his neck.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: shriek, throw, curl up, understand, seize · To what, where: Gon, Princess, stool, terror, snake

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Princess), 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 shrieked	nsubj
2	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 threw	cc
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrieked	conj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 threw	obj
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Gon	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Gon	cc
9	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shrieked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 curled	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 curled	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 curled	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 curled	aux:pass
14	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Gon	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 curled	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 stool	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stool	det
18	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 curled	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stool	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 understood	punct
23	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrieked	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 terror	nmod:poss
25	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 understood	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seized	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seized	cc
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 bound	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 bound	nummod
30	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	obl
31	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrieked	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snake	det
33	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 neck	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 neck	nmod:poss
36	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	Princess	Gon			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	throw	past	Princess not said here	Princess		backwards property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	curl up	past · perfect · passive		Gon	a stool at Princess's feet		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	understand	past	Princess not said here	Princess's terror			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer terror=Stimulus
5	seize	past	Princess not said here	the snake		with one bound; by Gon's neck	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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