The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 103
Suddenly they both caught sight of a tiny speck no bigger than a wasp, right up in the blue.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: catch, sight · To what, where: sight, tiny speck
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 speck | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 speck | det |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speck | amod |
| 9 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 bigger | advmod |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 speck | amod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 wasp | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wasp | det |
| 14 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bigger | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 up | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 blue | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 blue | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blue | det |
| 20 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wasp | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | eyes = eye | sight of a tiny speck | both, suddenly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | sight | a tiny speck | 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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