The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 62
He split the second bulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened.
Who acts: maiden, same thing · What happens: split, happen · To what, where: second bulrush
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, same thing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 split | nsubj |
| 2 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bulrush | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 bulrush | amod |
| 5 | bulrush | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 split | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 experiment | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 experiment | det |
| 8 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 split | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happened | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 happened | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 split | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | maiden | the second bulrush | as a experiment | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulrush=Patient | |||
| 2 | happen | past | the same thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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