The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 12
Breathless with rage and passion, she tried to plunge her dagger into the monk’s heart, but it fell shattered in pieces at her feet.
Who acts: Breathless rage · What happens: try, plunge, shatter · To what, where: dagger, heart, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Breathless rage), 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 | Breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rage | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 rage | case |
| 3 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 passion | cc |
| 5 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rage | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rage | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 plunge | mark |
| 10 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plunge | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monk | det |
| 15 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 monk | case |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plunge | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shattered | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 shattered | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shattered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shattered | aux:pass |
| 22 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tried | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shattered | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shattered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Breathless rage and passion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | plunge not said to happen | to-infinitive | Breathless rage and passion not said here | woman's dagger | the monk's heart | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dagger=Theme | |||
| 3 | shatter | past · passive | dagger | pieces | at woman's feet | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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