The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 10
While the quarrel was going on, Niels had loaded the gun again, and just as the second giant was about to put a nice tit-bit into his mouth, bang! went the gun again, and the fork flew into a dozen pieces.
Who acts: quarrel, Niels, second giant, fork · What happens: go on, load, be, put, go, fly · To what, where: gun, nice tit bit, mouth, dozen pieces
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarrel, Niels, second giant, fork), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 quarrel | det |
| 3 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 loaded | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 going | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 8 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 loaded | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loaded | aux |
| 10 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 went | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gun | det |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loaded | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 loaded | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 about | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 about | cc |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 about | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 about | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 giant | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 giant | amod |
| 20 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 about | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 about | cop |
| 22 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 loaded | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 put | mark |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 about | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bit | det |
| 26 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bit | amod |
| 27 | tit | tit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bit | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 tit | punct |
| 29 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 mouth | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bang | punct |
| 34 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mouth | conj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 gun | det |
| 38 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 flew | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 flew | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fork | det |
| 43 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 flew | nsubj |
| 44 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 went | conj |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 pieces | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 dozen | det |
| 47 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 pieces | nummod |
| 48 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 flew | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · progressive | the quarrel | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | load | past · perfect | Niels | the gun | again | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the second giant | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | the second giant not said here | a nice tit bit | Niels's mouth and bang | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | go | past | the gun | again | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gun=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fly | past | the fork | into dozen pieces result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into piece=Result |
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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