The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 12
So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, it will fly violently out of the hole.
Who acts: woodpecker, sod, nest · What happens: touch, block, fly · To what, where: sod, nest, hole
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodpecker, sod, nest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 touches | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 touches | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touches | nsubj |
| 5 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fly | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 root | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 root | det |
| 8 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sod | det |
| 10 | sod | sod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 blocks | nsubj |
| 12 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sod | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blocks | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 touches | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fly | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fly | aux |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 18 fly | advmod |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fly | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | woodpecker | the sod | with the root; soon property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sod=Experiencer with root=Instrument | |||
| 2 | block | present | the sod | the nest | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | future | nest | the hole | violently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Location |
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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