The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 99
But—but—it was the sheep, which, be—before my very eyes, were carried straight up—up into the air.
Who acts: noise, sheep · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: sheep, air
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, sheep), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sheep | cc |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sheep | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sheep | det |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 eyes | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 which | punct |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eyes | cop |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 eyes | advmod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sheep | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carried | aux:pass |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 carried | advmod |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 carried | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | noise | the sheep and my eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | the sheep and my eyes | before my eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · passive | the sheep and my eyes | the air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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