The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 22
She muttered to herself, caught the nightingale, and carried her away in her hand.
Who acts: woman · What happens: mutter, catch, carry away · To what, where: woman, nightingale, hand
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 muttered | nsubj |
| 2 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 herself | case |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 muttered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 muttered | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nightingale | det |
| 8 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 muttered | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 carried | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | woman | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | woman not said here | the nightingale | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry away | past | woman not said here | woman | woman's hand | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in hand=Location |
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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