The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 118

But he flung his arms round her and pressed her to his heart saying, ‘Now I see that you are as brave as the bravest, and as wise as the wisest.

Who acts: father, I, you · What happens: fling, press, say, see, be · To what, where: arms, dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (father, I, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 flung	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flung	nsubj
3	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flung	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flung	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pressed	cc
9	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pressed	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heart	nmod:poss
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pressed	obl
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pressed	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 see	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 brave	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 brave	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 brave	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 brave	advmod
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 see	ccomp
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 bravest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bravest	det
27	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 brave	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wise	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wise	cc
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 wise	advmod
31	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flung	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 wisest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wisest	det
34	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 wise	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	father	father's arms		round dragon	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	press	past	father not said here	dragon		to father's heart	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
3	say speech: assert	gerund	father not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	present	I		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	you			as the bravest; brave property	tree rules

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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