The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 31
‘_I_ will,’ cried the eldest girl, springing to her feet.
What happens: cry, spring · To what, where: eldest girl, feet
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: 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 springing | punct |
| 13 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 springing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | future | the eldest girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spring | gerund | girl's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
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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