The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 128
From each cake there sprang a huge dog, and he gave them the names of World’s-weight, Ironstrong, and Quick-ear.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: spring, give, name · To what, where: huge dog, cake, names, gifts, World’s weight
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 cake | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 cake | det |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dog | amod |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 names | det |
| 15 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 weight | case |
| 17 | World’s | World's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 weight | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 World’s | punct |
| 19 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 names | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ironstrong | punct |
| 21 | Ironstrong | Ironstrong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 weight | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ear | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ear | cc |
| 24 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ear | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Quick | punct |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | a huge dog | each cake; there | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Peter | the names of World’s weight | gifts = gift | Quick ear obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient name=Theme | ||
| 3 | name | World’s weight | nom name «communication 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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