The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 56
As they pressed her further with questions, she threw them the golden chain from her neck.
Who acts: hunters, maiden · What happens: press, throw · To what, where: maiden, hunters, neck
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, maiden), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 pressed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pressed | nsubj |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 threw | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pressed | obj |
| 5 | further | further | ADV | _ | 3 pressed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 questions | case |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pressed | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chain | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chain | amod |
| 14 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | hunters = hunter | maiden | with questions; further property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result | |||
| 2 | throw | past | maiden | hunters = hunter | maiden's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination chain=Theme |
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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