The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 37
Still trembling from the long struggle, she turned away, and went to the meadow where the stud were feeding.
Who acts: princess, stud · What happens: tremble, turn away, go, feed · To what, where: meadow
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 (princess, stud), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 trembling | advmod |
| 2 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 turned | advcl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 struggle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 struggle | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 struggle | amod |
| 6 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trembling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembling | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 meadow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meadow | det |
| 16 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 feeding | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stud | det |
| 19 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feeding | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 feeding | aux |
| 21 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | princess not said here | still | from the long struggle | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from struggle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn away | past | princess | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | princess not said here | the meadow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | feed | past · progressive | the stud | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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