The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 52
She threw herself into a wash-tub for my sake!
Who acts: Hulloa · What happens: throw · To what, where: Hulloa, wash tub
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hulloa), 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 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 tub | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tub | det |
| 6 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tub | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 wash | punct |
| 8 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sake | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sake | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Hulloa | Hulloa | into a wash tub result; for my sake | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into tub=Result |
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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