The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 35

‘You are lying!’ cried Petru angrily, throwing the box on the ground, where it broke into a thousand pieces.

Who acts: You, lying, ground · What happens: lie, cry, throw, break · To what, where: box, ground, thousand pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, lying, ground), 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	_	4 lying	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	csubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	flat
9	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 throwing	punct
11	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 box	det
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throwing	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throwing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 broke	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 broke	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 broke	nsubj
20	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thousand	det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 pieces	nummod
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 broke	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	You				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	lying			angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	gerund	lying not said here	the box	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent box=Theme on ground=Destination
4	break	past	ground			into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result

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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