The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 31
At this news a blind fury took possession of the genius, and he rushed madly upon the princess, who awaited his onslaught with perfect calmness.
Who acts: blind fury, genius, princess · What happens: take, rush, await, possess · To what, where: possession, news, onslaught, genius
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind fury, genius, princess), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fury | det |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fury | amod |
| 6 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 genius | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 genius | det |
| 11 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possession | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rushed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rushed | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rushed | nsubj |
| 15 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 16 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 15 rushed | advmod |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rushed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 awaited | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 awaited | nsubj |
| 22 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 princess | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 onslaught | nmod:poss |
| 24 | onslaught | onslaught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 awaited | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 calmness | case |
| 26 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 calmness | amod |
| 27 | calmness | calmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 awaited | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a blind fury | possession of the genius | this news | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent possession=Theme at news=Asset | |||
| 2 | rush | past | genius | upon the princess; madly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon princess=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | await | past | the princess | genius's onslaught | with perfect calmness | tree rules | |||
| 4 | possess | the genius | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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