The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 61
He took the pebble from his mouth, and flung himself at Rosalie’s feet.
Who acts: heart · What happens: take, fling · To what, where: pebble, mouth, heart, feet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pebble | det |
| 4 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flung | cc |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 flung | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 13 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Rosalie | case |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flung | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | heart | the pebble | heart's mouth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fling | past | heart not said here | heart | Rosalie's feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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