The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 49
Elsa meanwhile was tossed about between hope and fear, and felt as if the girl would never come.
Who acts: girl · What happens: toss, feel, not come · To what, where: Elsa
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 (girl), 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 | 4 tossed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 tossed | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tossed | aux:pass |
| 4 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 hope | case |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 hope | case |
| 7 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tossed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fear | cc |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hope | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tossed | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 felt | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past · passive | Elsa | about hope and fear; meanwhile property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme about hope=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | not come a condition, not said to happen | would | the girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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