The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 43
By-and-bye a story went round the town, started no one knew how, that the malady was in some way connected with the nose; and men rubbed their own anxiously, to be sure that nothing catching was in the air.
Who acts: story, one, malady, men, nothing catching · What happens: go, start, know, be, connect, rub · To what, where: town, way, own, air
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, one, malady, men), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 8 went | discourse |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 started | parataxis |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 knew | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 way | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 way | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 malady | det |
| 21 | malady | malady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 way | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 way | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | parataxis |
| 26 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 way | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 nose | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 nose | det |
| 29 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 connected | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 rubbed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rubbed | cc |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rubbed | nsubj |
| 33 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 own | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rubbed | obj |
| 36 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 33 rubbed | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sure | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 sure | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 sure | cop |
| 40 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rubbed | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 air | mark |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 43 catching | compound |
| 43 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 air | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 air | cop |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 air | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 air | det |
| 47 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sure | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a story | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | start | past | a story not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the malady | some way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | connect | participle | some way not said here | with the nose | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with nose=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | rub | past | men | men's own | anxiously property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent own=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | men not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | past | nothing catching | the air | tree rules |
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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