The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 116
She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in the glass, was struck dumb at her own beauty.
Who acts: Dotterine, fingers · What happens: put on, tremble, look, strike · To what, where: dress
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dotterine, fingers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fingers | case |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 trembled | nsubj |
| 8 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fingers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trembled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 struck | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 struck | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 struck | aux:pass |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 put | conj |
| 21 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 struck | xcomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 beauty | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beauty | amod |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | past | Dotterine | dress | with fingers | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 2 | tremble | past | fingers | with joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | in the glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glass=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strike | past · passive | Dotterine not said here | at Dotterine's own beauty; dumb property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: at beauty=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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