The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 9
In the morning he ran to the nearest stream to wash himself, but to his horror, when he caught sight of his face, he saw his nose had grown the colour of an apple, and reached nearly to his waist.
Who acts: mind · What happens: run, wash, catch, see, grow, reach · To what, where: mind, sight, nose, waist, face · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mind), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 8 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 stream | amod |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wash | mark |
| 11 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 wash | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 horror | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horror | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 horror | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 caught | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caught | nsubj |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 saw | advcl |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caught | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 nose | nmod:poss |
| 30 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 grown | aux |
| 32 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 saw | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 colour | det |
| 34 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grown | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 apple | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 apple | det |
| 37 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 colour | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 reached | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 reached | cc |
| 40 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 41 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 44 waist | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 waist | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 waist | nmod:poss |
| 44 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 reached | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | mind | morning | to the nearest stream result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stream=Result | |||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | mind not said here | mind | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | mind | sight of mind's face | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | mind | to mind's horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | grow | past · perfect · passive | mind's nose | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary colour=Product | |||||
| 6 | reach | past | mind not said here | mind's waist | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent waist=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sight | mind's face | 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 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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