The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 44
When the true bride heard of this she felt as though a knife had pierced her heart, and she fell fainting to the ground.
Who acts: true bride, bride · What happens: hear, feel, pierce, fall, faint · To what, where: knife
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (true bride, bride), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bride | amod |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 felt | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 pierced | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knife | det |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pierced | aux |
| 15 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 felt | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pierced | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | conj |
| 22 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fainting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the true bride | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | bride | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | pierce | past · perfect · passive | a knife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | bride | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | faint | gerund | bride not said here | to the ground | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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