The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 93
Her cry of horror brought her youngest brother to her, and, unable to speak, she held out the knife!
Who acts: cry, sister, horror · What happens: bring, speak, hold out, cry · To what, where: youngest brother, sister, knife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry, sister, horror), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cry | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 horror | case |
| 4 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cry | nmod |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unable | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 unable | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unable | punct |
| 14 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 speak | mark |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unable | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 held | nsubj |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unable | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 held | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 knife | det |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | sister's cry of horror | sister's youngest brother | sister | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | sister's cry of horror not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold out | past | sister | the knife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry | horror | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 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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