The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 54
The lady was as if thunderstruck when she caught sight of her husband; she fell on her knees and begged for mercy.
Who acts: lady · What happens: thunderstruck, catch, fall, beg, sight · To what, where: lady, sight, knees, husband
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thunderstruck | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thunderstruck | aux |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 thunderstruck | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 thunderstruck | mark |
| 6 | thunderstruck | thunderstruck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 caught | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thunderstruck | advcl |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thunderstruck | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 knees | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knees | nmod:poss |
| 19 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 begged | cc |
| 21 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fell | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 mercy | case |
| 23 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 begged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thunderstruck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunderstruck | past · passive | the lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | lady | sight of lady's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | lady | lady's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | participle | lady not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sight | lady's husband | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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