The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 17
This time it was the third giant’s fork that caught the bullet, and snapped in two.
Who acts: time, fork · What happens: be, catch, snap · To what, where: fork, bullet, two
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 (time, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fork | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fork | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fork | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 giant | amod |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fork | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 giant | case |
| 9 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fork | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bullet | det |
| 13 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snapped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 snapped | cc |
| 16 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 snapped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fork | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this time | the third giant's fork | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the third giant's fork | the bullet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | snap | past | two | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location |
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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