The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 130

If the humour seized her, she would fling aside her tasks, take her treasure box, and go off to play in the sea, where no harm ever came to her.

Who acts: humour, Kisika, harm · What happens: seize, fling, take, go off, play, come · To what, where: Kisika, treasure box, sea

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humour, Kisika, harm), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 seized	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 humour	det
3	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fling	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seized	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fling	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fling	aux
9	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	aside	aside	ADP	_	12 tasks	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tasks	nmod:poss
12	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fling	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fling	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 box	nmod:poss
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	compound
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fling	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 go	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 play	mark
23	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 came	advmod
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 harm	det
30	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 came	advmod
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sea	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize a condition, not said to happen	past	the humour	Kisika					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	fling	would	Kisika					aside Kisika's tasks	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	infinitive	Kisika not said here	Kisika's treasure box					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
4	go off	infinitive	Kisika not said here						tree rules
5	play	to-infinitive	Kisika not said here			the sea			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	no harm		Kisika		ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
7	task		Kisika						nom task «act 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 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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