The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 58
Iwanich, who felt sorry for the poor creature, seized it in his arms and flung it into the stream.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: feel, seize, fling · To what, where: creature, arms, stream
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Iwanich | acl:relcl |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 creature | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Iwanich | punct |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seized | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flung | cc |
| 17 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flung | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 stream | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stream | det |
| 21 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flung | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Iwanich | for the poor creature; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Iwanich | creature | Iwanich's arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | fling | past | Iwanich not said here | creature | the stream | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into stream=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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