The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 288
She flew to her mirror and uttered a piercing cry.
Who acts: plum · What happens: fly, utter · To what, where: mirror, piercing cry
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plum), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 mirror | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mirror | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 uttered | cc |
| 7 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 9 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cry | compound |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uttered | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | plum | plum's mirror | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mirror=Destination | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | plum not said here | a piercing cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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