The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 55
In despair I threw myself on the ground, and instantly sank in it as far as my waist.
Who acts: I · What happens: throw, sink · To what, where: myself, despair, ground
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 despair | case |
| 2 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 12 sank | advmod |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sank | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sank | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 waist | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 waist | nmod:poss |
| 19 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 far | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | I | myself | despair | on the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in despair=Destination | ||
| 2 | sink | past | I not said here | ground | far, instantly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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