The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 25
He caught the sun’s beams and held them, and to his joy the earth grew green again and flowers blossomed.
Who acts: cloud, earth, sun · What happens: catch, hold, grow, blossom, beam, joy · To what, where: beams, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud, earth, sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beams | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 6 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 caught | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 held | cc |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 held | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grew | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 joy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 grew | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flowers | cc |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | conj |
| 22 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 flowers | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | cloud | the sun's beams | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | cloud not said here | beams = beam | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the earth | again | to cloud's joy; green property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | blossom | participle | flowers not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | beam | the sun | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | joy | cloud | nom joy «feeling 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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