The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 129
They bayed with joy at the sight of him, and as Peter turned to pat them, he beheld Eisenkopf at the edge of the fire, but the opening had closed up behind Peter, and he could not get through.
Who acts: names, Peter · What happens: bay, turn, pat, behold, close up, not get through · To what, where: names, Eisenkopf, edge, opening, Peter
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 (names, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bayed | nsubj |
| 2 | bayed | bay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bayed | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bayed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beheld | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beheld | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 13 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beheld | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pat | mark |
| 16 | pat | pat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turned | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pat | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beheld | nsubj |
| 20 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bayed | conj |
| 21 | Eisenkopf | Eisenkopf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 beheld | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 edge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beheld | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fire | det |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edge | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 closed | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 closed | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 opening | det |
| 31 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 closed | aux |
| 33 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 beheld | parataxis |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 closed | compound:prt |
| 35 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 Peter | case |
| 36 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 closed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 get | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 get | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 get | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 get | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 get | advmod |
| 42 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bayed | advcl |
| 43 | through | through | ADV | _ | 42 get | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bay | past | names = name | with joy; at the sight of Peter | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pat | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | names = name | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | behold | past | Peter | Eisenkopf | the edge of the fire | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eisenkopf=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | close up | past · perfect · passive | the opening | Peter | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not get through | could | Peter | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | sight | Peter | 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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