The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 40
Elsa stooped and kissed her hand, then, kneeling down, buried her face in the woman’s lap, and sobbed out:
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: stoop, kiss, kneel down, bury, sob out · To what, where: hand, face, 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 (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 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stooped | nsubj |
| 2 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | cc |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stooped | conj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kneeling | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 kneeling | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kneeling | punct |
| 10 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stooped | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 kneeling | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buried | punct |
| 13 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stooped | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buried | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lap | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lap | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 20 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sobbed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sobbed | cc |
| 23 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stooped | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 sobbed | compound:prt |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | Elsa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Elsa not said here | Elsa's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | kneel down | gerund | Elsa not said here | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | bury | past | Elsa not said here | Elsa's face | the woman's lap | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in lap=Destination | |||
| 5 | sob out | participle | Elsa not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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