The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 82

Then he took her hand and held her tightly, and as she was trying to get away, she undid the fur-cloak a little bit and the star-dress shone out.

Who acts: King, Creature · What happens: take, hold, try, get away, undo, shine out · To what, where: hand, fur cloak, star dress

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Creature), 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	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tightly	nmod:poss
9	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	7 held	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 undid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 undid	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 trying	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trying	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trying	aux
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 undid	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	xcomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trying	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 undid	nsubj
21	undid	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cloak	det
23	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cloak	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 fur	punct
25	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 undid	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bit	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bit	amod
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 undid	obl:unmarked
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dress	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dress	det
31	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dress	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 star	punct
33	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	conj
34	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 dress	acl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 shone	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	King	Creature's hand	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	hold	past	King not said here			tightly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past · progressive	Creature				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Creature not said here			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	undo	past	Creature	the fur cloak		a little bit and the star dress obl:unmarked	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
6	shine out	participle		the star dress not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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