The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 76
When the last foot had got inside, the two halves of the shell shut close.
Who acts: last foot · What happens: get, shut · To what, where: two halves
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 (last foot), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 foot | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foot | amod |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 halves | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 halves | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 halves | nummod |
| 11 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 shell | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shell | det |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 halves | nmod |
| 15 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 halves | acl |
| 16 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 shut | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | the last foot | the two halves of the shell | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | shut | participle | the two halves of the shell not said here | close property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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