The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 7
Then, with one last effort to free herself, her hands gave way, and, falling down to the bottom of the tower, she was broken in pieces.
Who acts: hands · What happens: give, fall down, break · To what, where: way, fire, pieces
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 (hands), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 effort | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 effort | nummod |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effort | amod |
| 6 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 free | mark |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effort | amod |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 free | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 effort | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 falling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 falling | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 falling | punct |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gave | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 falling | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 falling | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tower | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tower | det |
| 25 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottom | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 broken | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 broken | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 broken | aux:pass |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gave | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 pieces | case |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 broken | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | fire's hands | way | then | with one last effort | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||
| 2 | fall down | gerund | fire's hands not said here | to the bottom of the tower; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | fire | pieces | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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