The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 37
The brave girl’s heart almost stopped beating from joy, as she set about her preparations.
Who acts: heart · What happens: stop, beat, set, prepare · To what, where: joy
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 (heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 stopped | advmod |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stopped | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beating | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 set | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopped | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 preparations | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 17 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the brave girl's heart | almost property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | the brave girl's heart not said here | joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | past | heart | about heart's preparations | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about preparation=Destination | ||||
| 4 | prepare | heart | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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