The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 175
Suddenly a sharp pain quivered through her body, and she fell to the ground, pierced by an arrow.
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: quiver, fall, pierce · To what, where: sharp pain, body, ground
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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 pain | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pain | det |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pain | amod |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pain | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quivered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pain | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pierced | punct |
| 17 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ground | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 arrow | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 arrow | det |
| 20 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pierced | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quiver | participle | a sharp pain not said here | Elsa's body | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through body=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Elsa | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | participle | the ground not said here | by a arrow | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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