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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 96

For a moment her heart failed her, but the next, touching the horse lightly with her spur, she drew her sword from its sheath, ready to separate the wolf’s head from its body at a single blow.

Who acts: heart, bade · What happens: fail, touch, draw, separate, spur · To what, where: bade, horse, sword, sheath, head

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, bade), 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

casedetoblnmod:possnsubjobjpunctccdetconjpunctadvcldetobjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctconjmarkxcompdetnmod:posscaseobjcasenmod:possoblcasedetamodoblpunctrootForADPaDETmomentNOUNherPRONheartNOUNfailedVERBherPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETnextADJ,PUNCTtouchingVERBtheDEThorseNOUNlightlyADVwithADPherPRONspurNOUN,PUNCTshePRONdrewVERBherPRONswordNOUNfromADPitsPRONsheathNOUN,PUNCTreadyADJtoPARTseparateVERBtheDETwolfNOUN’sPARTheadNOUNfromADPitsPRONbodyNOUNatADPaDETsingleADJblowNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_3 momentcase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 momentdet
3momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing6 failedobl
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 heartnmod:poss
5heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing6 failednsubj
6failedfailVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 failedobj
8,,PUNCT_11 nextpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 nextcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 nextdet
11nextnextADJDegree=Pos6 failedconj
12,,PUNCT_13 touchingpunct
13touchingtouchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 failedadvcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 horsedet
15horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing13 touchingobj
16lightlylightlyADV_13 touchingadvmod
17withwithADP_19 spurcase
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 spurnmod:poss
19spurspurNOUNNumber=Sing13 touchingobl
20,,PUNCT_22 drewpunct
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 drewnsubj
22drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 failedparataxis
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 swordnmod:poss
24swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing22 drewobj
25fromfromADP_27 sheathcase
26itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 sheathnmod:poss
27sheathsheathNOUNNumber=Sing22 drewobl
28,,PUNCT_29 readypunct
29readyreadyADJDegree=Pos22 drewconj
30totoPART_31 separatemark
31separateseparateVERBVerbForm=Inf29 readyxcomp
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 wolfdet
33wolfwolfNOUNNumber=Sing35 headnmod:poss
34’s'sPART_33 wolfcase
35headheadNOUNNumber=Sing31 separateobj
36fromfromADP_38 bodycase
37itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 bodynmod:poss
38bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing31 separateobl
39atatADP_42 blowcase
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 blowdet
41singlesingleADJDegree=Pos42 blowamod
42blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing31 separateobl
43..PUNCT_6 failedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1failpastbade's heartbademomentvn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2touchgerundbade's heart not said herethe horsewith bade's spur; lightly propertyvn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Experiencer with spur=Instrument
3drawpastbadebade's swordsword's sheathvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from sheath=Initial_Location
4separateto-infinitivebade not said herethe wolf's headat a single blow; from sword's bodyvn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient from body=Co-Patient
5spurbadenom spur «communication 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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