The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 43
She screamed and cried, and tried to get off the swing, but it was now too late.
Who acts: girl, swing · What happens: scream, cry, try, get off, be · To what, where: swing
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, swing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 screamed | nsubj |
| 2 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 screamed | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 swing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swing | det |
| 12 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 late | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 late | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 late | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 late | cop |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 late | advmod |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 late | advmod |
| 19 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 screamed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | girl not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | try | past | girl not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get off not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the swing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | swing | now | late property | tree rules |
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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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