The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 80
Suddenly he sprang forward, seized her in his arms and kissed her, and plucked a rose from her hair.
Who acts: youth · What happens: spring, seize, kiss, pluck · To what, where: light, arms, rose, hair
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seized | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seized | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plucked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 plucked | cc |
| 16 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rose | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plucked | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plucked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | youth | forward, suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | youth not said here | light | youth's arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | kiss | past | youth not said here | light | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | pluck | past | youth not said here | a rose | light's hair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rose=Theme from hair=Source |
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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