The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 55

Then she put her hand on his pulse, and found a faint movement in it.

Who acts: Princess, three · What happens: put, find, pulse · To what, where: hand, pulse, faint movement, movement

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, three), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 put	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pulse	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pulse	nmod:poss
8	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 movement	det
13	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 movement	amod
14	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	past	Princess	Princess's hand	three's pulse	then	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on pulse=Destination
2	find	past	Princess not said here	a faint movement	movement		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Topic
3	pulse		three				nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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