The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 133
Elsa was surprised at the summons, for it was unusual, and her heart sank, for she feared some evil threatened her.
Who acts: Elsa, heart, evil · What happens: be, sink, fear, threaten · To what, where: summons, Elsa · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Elsa, heart, evil), 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 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 summons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 summons | det |
| 6 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 surprised | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unusual | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 unusual | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unusual | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unusual | cop |
| 11 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 surprised | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sank | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sank | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sank | nsubj |
| 16 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feared | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 feared | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feared | nsubj |
| 20 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sank | advcl |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 evil | det |
| 22 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 threatened | nsubj |
| 23 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feared | ccomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 threatened | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Elsa | the summons | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Elsa not said here | unusual property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sink | past | Elsa's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fear | past | Elsa | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | threaten | past | some evil | Elsa | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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