The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 115
“Because they always throw out their sweepings in the face of the sun.”
Who acts: spades · What happens: throw out, sweep · To what, where: sweepings, face
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spades), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 throw | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 throw | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 throw | advmod |
| 5 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 throw | compound:prt |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sweepings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sweepings | sweeping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 throw | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sun. | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun. | det |
| 14 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out in a quote | present | spades = spade | spades's sweepings | the face of the sun. | always property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sweeping=Theme in face=Destination | ||
| 2 | sweep in a quote | spades = spade | nom sweeping «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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