In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 94

But as she stood erect, she quickly slipped her thin hands down over the shoulders, under the robe, and clutched the breasts of the girl,, and burst into a wicked laugh.

Who acts: woman · What happens: stand, slip, clutch, burst · To what, where: thin hands, Lady, shoulders, breasts, wicked laugh

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. 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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 slipped	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	advcl
5	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slipped	nsubj
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 slipped	advmod
9	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slipped	obj
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slipped	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	9 slipped	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 shoulders	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoulders	det
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slipped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 robe	punct
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 robe	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 robe	det
20	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slipped	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 clutched	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clutched	cc
23	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 breasts	det
25	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 clutched	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 girl	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 breasts	nmod
29	,,	,,	PUNCT	_	31 burst	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burst	cc
31	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 laugh	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 laugh	det
34	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 laugh	amod
35	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burst	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	woman				erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slip	past	woman	thin hands	Lady	the shoulders	the robe parataxis; down, quickly property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination hand=Theme
3	clutch	past	woman not said here	the breasts of the girl				vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Theme
4	burst	past	woman not said here			a wicked laugh		vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 94