The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 55
She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor, drawing little Jem after her.
Who acts: Jem · What happens: throw away, walk, draw · To what, where: stick, glass floor, little Jem
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 threw | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stick | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 8 | briskly | briskly | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floor | compound |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drawing | punct |
| 14 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 walked | advcl |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Jem | amod |
| 16 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 drawing | obj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drawing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | Jem | Jem's stick | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | Jem not said here | the glass floor | briskly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | draw | gerund | Jem not said here | little Jem | after Jem | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jem=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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