The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 134

As she crossed the threshold, she saw that the lady’s cheeks were flushed, and her eyes full of tears, which she dried hastily, as if she would conceal them from the girl.

Who acts: Elsa · What happens: cross, see, flush, dry, conceal · To what, where: threshold, cheeks, tears, eyes · 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), 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 crossed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crossed	nsubj
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 threshold	det
5	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 crossed	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 flushed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lady	det
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cheeks	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 lady	case
13	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flushed	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 flushed	aux:pass
15	flushed	flush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saw	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 full	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 full	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 full	nsubj
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 tears	case
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 full	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dried	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 dried	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dried	nsubj
26	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tears	acl:relcl
27	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	26 dried	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 conceal	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 conceal	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 conceal	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 conceal	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 conceal	aux
33	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dried	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 conceal	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 girl	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 girl	det
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 conceal	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Elsa	the threshold		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient
2	see	past	Elsa			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	flush	past · passive		the lady's cheeks		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
4	dry	past	Elsa	tears	hastily property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result
5	conceal a condition, not said to happen	would	Elsa	eyes = eye	from the girl	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from girl=Beneficiary

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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