The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 136
‘Part?’ cried Elsa, burying her head in the lady’s lap.
Who acts: Part · What happens: cry, bury · To what, where: head, lap
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 (Part), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Part | punct |
| 2 | Part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Part | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Part | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burying | punct |
| 8 | burying | bury | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burying | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lap | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lap | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 15 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burying | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Part | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bury | gerund | Part not said here | part's head | the lady's lap | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Destination |
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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