The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 43
On this the girl dismounted, and picking up the curl, wound it round her neck for safety.
Who acts: girl · What happens: dismount, pick up, wound · To what, where: curl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 girl | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dismounted | nsubj |
| 5 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wound | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wound | cc |
| 8 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wound | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picking | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curl | det |
| 11 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picking | punct |
| 13 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dismounted | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wound | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wound | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 safety | case |
| 19 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 neck | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | this girl | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | the curl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wound | infinitive | this girl not said here | curl | round girl's neck for safety | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
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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