The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 4
But she was not beaten yet, and gathering herself together, she made a prodigious leap, which landed her on the top of the tower, right in the middle of Iliane’s ring which lay there, and held her tight.
Who acts: mother, prodigious leap, ring · What happens: not beat, gather, make, land, lie, hold · To what, where: mother, prodigious leap, top, tight
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 (mother, prodigious leap, ring), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 beaten | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beaten | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 beaten | advmod |
| 5 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 beaten | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 9 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 made | advcl |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 gathering | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 gathering | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathering | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beaten | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 leap | det |
| 16 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leap | amod |
| 17 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 landed | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 landed | nsubj |
| 20 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 leap | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 landed | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 landed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tower | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tower | det |
| 27 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 top | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 middle | punct |
| 29 | right | right | ADV | _ | 32 middle | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 middle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 middle | det |
| 32 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 landed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ring | case |
| 34 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ring | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Iliane | case |
| 36 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 middle | nmod |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 lay | nsubj |
| 38 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ring | acl:relcl |
| 39 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 lay | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 held | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 held | cc |
| 42 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 tight | nmod:poss |
| 44 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 held | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not beat | past · passive | mother | yet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather | gerund | mother not said here | mother | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | mother | a prodigious leap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Product | ||||
| 4 | land | past | a prodigious leap | mother | the top of the tower | in the middle of Iliane's ring | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on top=Destination | ||
| 5 | lie | past | Iliane's ring | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hold | past | mother not said here | mother's tight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tight=Theme |
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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