The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57
As soon as the woodpecker came back with the root in her beak out rushed Master Peter from behind the tree and displayed the fiery red cloak so adroitly that the terrified bird dropped the root just where it could be easily seen.
Who acts: terrified bird · What happens: come back, rush, display, drop, see · To what, where: Master Peter, tree, fiery red cloak, root, cloak
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 (terrified bird), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 woodpecker | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woodpecker | det |
| 5 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 root | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 root | det |
| 10 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rushed | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 beak | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beak | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 root | nmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 beak | advmod |
| 15 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 16 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Peter | compound |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rushed | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rushed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 displayed | cc |
| 23 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rushed | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cloak | det |
| 25 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cloak | amod |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cloak | amod |
| 27 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 displayed | obj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 adroitly | advmod |
| 29 | adroitly | adroitly | ADV | _ | 23 displayed | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 dropped | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bird | det |
| 32 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bird | amod |
| 33 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dropped | nsubj |
| 34 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 displayed | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 root | det |
| 36 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dropped | obj |
| 37 | just | just | ADV | _ | 43 seen | advmod |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 seen | advmod |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 seen | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 seen | aux:pass |
| 42 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 43 seen | advmod |
| 43 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 dropped | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | as the woodpecker; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush | past | Master Peter | the tree | with the root in root's beak | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent peter=Theme from tree=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | display | past | the fiery red cloak | adroitly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the terrified bird | the root | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | could · passive | cloak | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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